Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, where he teaches Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis. He earned his doctorate at the same institution. His scientific activity is located at the intersection of computational social science, analysis of digital platforms and political communication, with a specific focus on the study of information disorders and coordinated behaviour on social media.

He is the founder and coordinator of the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE) — https://mine.uniurb.it/ — active at the University of Urbino since 2017. MINE investigates Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on electoral processes, public opinion and health information, and has hosted a succession of externally funded sub-projects supported by the Open Society Foundations, the Social Science Research Council (with Facebook data via Social Science One), the Italian MUR, the Gates Foundation, the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the European Commission (see the Competitive research projects table below). Within MINE, Giglietto co-developed CooRnet (with Nicola Righetti and Luca Rossi), the open-source R package that introduced the Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) detection method, applied internationally by researchers, journalists and fact-checkers. CooRnet is now discontinued at the operational level following the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle on 14 August 2024; the CLSB methodology it introduced lives on in the downstream CooRTweet R package (Righetti & Balluff, 2023–), independently maintained.

On the European front, he served as WP4 Leader of the Horizon Europe project vera.ai (concluded October 2025), which developed AI-based tools for countering disinformation, and as Partner on PROMPT (European Commission, DG CNECT; concluded February 2026), dedicated to monitoring disinformation narratives in Europe. All externally funded MINE sub-projects have now concluded; the MINE programme itself remains active as the institutional umbrella for his ongoing research line, with no active external grant at present.

He is a member of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and the Italian Association for Political Communication. He has participated in the board of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association.