Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is Full Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate. His work sits at the intersection of computational social science, political communication and the analysis of digital platforms, with a particular focus on information disorders and coordinated behaviour on social media. His teaching has included courses on Digital Social Network Analysis and on Generative AI and Media.

In 2017 he founded the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE) at Urbino, which, as of August 2026, remains the institutional umbrella for his research. Within MINE he has coordinated a succession of externally funded sub-projects on elections, public opinion and health information, all concluded by February 2026. He also co-developed CooRnet, the open-source R package that introduced the Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior detection method, adopted internationally by researchers, journalists and fact-checkers. Active development of the package ended after the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle in August 2024, but the methodology it introduced continues to inform independent downstream tools such as CooRTweet, maintained by other scholars.

His work has fed into several European initiatives. He served as a work package leader of the Horizon Europe project vera.ai (concluded in October 2025) and as a partner on PROMPT, a European Commission-funded project on disinformation narratives (concluded in February 2026). He was a member of the Joint Research Centre expert group on the systemic risks of very large online platforms, a study supporting the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency under the Digital Services Act, for which he delivered summary reports in 2026, and he serves as an evaluator and rapporteur for the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. His 2025 working paper on Meta's political content reduction policy was cited in a written question to the European Commission and drew coverage in Italian outlets including Il Sole 24 Ore and Open.

He is a member of the International Communication Association, the Association of Internet Researchers and the Italian Association for Political Communication, and has served on the board of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics. He is also a founding partner of Digit Srl, a benefit-corporation spin-off of the University of Urbino that develops digital platforms for sustainability, civic participation, social innovation and scientific dissemination.