Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, where he earned his doctorate and currently teaches Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis. His scientific activity is located at the intersection of computational social science, the analysis of digital platforms, and political communication. A core focus of his research involves the study of information disorders and coordinated behavior on social media, reflecting his deep engagement with contemporary digital phenomena.

He is the founder and coordinator of the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), an institutional umbrella active at the University of Urbino since 2017. MINE has investigated Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on electoral processes, public opinion, and health information through a succession of externally funded sub-projects supported by diverse organizations, including the Open Society Foundations, the Gates Foundation, and the European Commission. Within MINE, Professor Giglietto co-developed CooRnet, an open-source R package that introduced the widely applied Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) detection method. CooRnet is now operationally discontinued following the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle in August 2024, though its methodology lives on in the independently maintained CooRTweet R package, for which he is not a co-developer. While MINE remains his ongoing research line, no external grants are currently active under the program.

On the European front, Professor Giglietto played a significant role as WP4 Leader for the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which concluded in October 2025, focusing on developing AI-based tools for countering disinformation. He also served as a Partner on PROMPT, an initiative by the European Commission dedicated to monitoring disinformation narratives in Europe, concluding in February 2026. Beyond his academic and project roles, he is an active member of prominent professional organizations including the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and the Italian Association for Political Communication, having also contributed to the board of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association. Additionally, he is a founding partner of Digit Srl, a benefit-corporation spin-off of the University of Urbino, dedicated to developing digital platforms for sustainability, civic participation, social innovation, and scientific dissemination.