Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is, as of August 2026, Full Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate. 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. His teaching at Urbino has included courses on Generative AI and Media and on Digital Social Network Analysis. In 2017 he founded the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), which he has coordinated since; the programme has hosted a succession of externally funded projects on Italian elections, public opinion and health information, and as of August 2026 it remains the institutional umbrella for his research line.

With Nicola Righetti and Luca Rossi, Giglietto co-developed CooRnet, the open-source R package that introduced the Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior detection method and was applied internationally by researchers, journalists and fact-checkers. Operational development of CooRnet ended after Meta shut down CrowdTangle, the service it relied on for data access, in August 2024; its methodology lives on in downstream tools such as CooRTweet, an independent package built by other researchers. At the European level, he served as WP4 Leader of the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which developed AI-based tools for countering disinformation and concluded in October 2025, and as a partner in PROMPT, a European Commission project monitoring disinformation narratives that concluded in February 2026. He was also a member of a Joint Research Centre expert group on the systemic risks of very large online platforms, contributing to the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency under the Digital Services Act, and holds an appointment as evaluator and rapporteur for the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, which as of August 2026 ran to September 2026.

His 2025 working paper on Meta's political content reduction policy and the Facebook visibility of Italian parliamentarians was cited in a written question to the European Commission and drew coverage in Italian outlets including Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Resto del Carlino, Open and Lumsanews. Beyond his research, Giglietto is 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. 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 the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics.