Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is, as of August 2026, Full Professor of Internet Studies in the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate. His teaching has included Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis. His research sits at the intersection of computational social science, the analysis of digital platforms and political communication, with a particular focus on information disorders and coordinated behaviour on social media.

In 2017 he founded the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE) at Urbino and has coordinated it since; as of August 2026 the programme remains the umbrella for his research on Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on elections, public opinion and health information. Within MINE he co-developed CooRnet, with Nicola Righetti and Luca Rossi: an open-source R package that introduced the Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior detection method, applied internationally by researchers, journalists and fact-checkers. Operational development of CooRnet ended after the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle in August 2024, on which it relied for data access, though its methodology continued to inform downstream tools such as CooRTweet, developed independently by others. His EU-funded work includes serving as WP4 Leader of the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which concluded in October 2025, and as a partner on PROMPT, which concluded in February 2026.

He has also served the European Commission as an independent expert. As a member of a Joint Research Centre expert group on systemic risks of very large online platforms, he provided scientific oversight of the group's research projects, monitored the platform data-access request process and authored its summary reports, delivered in 2026. He was appointed evaluator and rapporteur for the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, an appointment that, as of August 2026, ran to September 2026. His 2025 working paper on Meta's political content reduction policy was cited in a written question to the European Commission tabled in the European Parliament, and between January and April 2026 drew national media coverage in Italy, including Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Resto del Carlino and Open.

As of August 2026 he is a member of the International Communication Association, the Association of Internet Researchers and the Italian Association for Political Communication, and he has served on the board of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association. He is a founding partner (socio fondatore) 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.