Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate and currently teaches Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis. His scientific activity is deeply rooted in the intersection of computational social science, the intricate analysis of digital platforms, and the dynamic field of political communication. Professor Giglietto’s research primarily focuses on understanding information disorders and detecting coordinated behavior on social media, offering critical insights into how digital technologies shape public opinion and democratic processes.

He is the founder and coordinator of the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), active at the University of Urbino since 2017. MINE serves as an institutional umbrella for a succession of externally funded sub-projects, investigating Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on electoral processes, public opinion, and health information, supported by various international and national funders. Within MINE, Professor Giglietto co-developed CooRnet, an open-source R package that introduced the influential Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) detection method. While CooRnet is now discontinued operationally due to the shutdown of Meta’s CrowdTangle, its methodology lives on in the independently maintained CooRTweet R package.

On the European stage, Professor Giglietto recently served as WP4 Leader for the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which concluded in October 2025, focusing on AI-based tools to counter disinformation. He also contributed as a Partner on the PROMPT project, dedicated to monitoring disinformation narratives in Europe, which concluded in February 2026. While all externally funded MINE sub-projects have now concluded, the MINE programme continues as the overarching framework for his ongoing research line. He is a respected member of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and the Italian Association for Political Communication, having also served on the board of ISA Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics.