University of Urbino
Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies
Fabio Giglietto, PhD, is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. He teaches courses such as Generative AI and Media, and Digital Social Network Analysis. His research explores the multifaceted relationships between social systems, media, and digital technologies, with a focus on the theory of information, communication, and society.
Professor Giglietto's work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Communication, Information, Communication & Society, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Social Media + Society, and Social Science Computer Review. His publications have received over 2200 citations. He leads the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), which investigates Italian news media coverage and the impact of social media on Italian elections. He is also involved in the EU-funded Horizon Europe project VERAAI, developing AI-based tools for journalists and fact-checkers to verify multimedia content and combat disinformation, with a focus on detecting coordinated behavior and inauthentic networks. Additionally, he contributes to the EU-funded PROMPT initiative, which addresses disinformation narratives across Europe.
His current research interests include coordinated behavior detection, multimodal narratives, and the challenges of social media data access. Professor Giglietto actively participates in professional discussions on platforms like BlueSky (@fabiogiglietto.bsky.social) and Mastodon, addressing topics such as platform policies and research methodologies. His recent work includes an analysis of Meta's political content reduction policy and its impact on the reach of Italian parliamentarians on Facebook. As part of the VERAAI Alerts project, he has been tracking and analyzing coordinated accounts on Facebook, identifying coordinated posts and accounts within large groups and networks.
Giglietto, F. (2025). "A Pretty Blunt Approach": Meta's Political Content Reduction Policy and Italian Parliamentarians' Facebook Visibility. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8dqag_v2
Giglietto, F. (2025). The State of Social Media Research APIs & Tools in the Digital Service Act Era. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16269197
Giglietto, F. (2025). Manipolazione dei media ed influenza digitale. Sfide, tecnologie e risposte. .
Giglietto, F. (2025). Viralità. .
Giglietto, F. (2025). "A Pretty Blunt Approach": Meta's Political Content Reduction Policy and Italian Parliamentarians' Facebook Visibility. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8dqag_v1
An EU-funded Horizon Europe project that developed advanced AI-based tools to assist journalists and fact-checkers in verifying multimedia content and combating disinformation. As Work Package 4 leader, I focused on the detection of coordinated behavior and inauthentic networks spreading misleading content.
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An EU-funded initiative focused on detecting and analyzing disinformation narratives across Europe, addressing sensitive issues including the war in Ukraine, LGBTQI+ rights, and European elections through the development of language models, monitoring dashboards, and educational resources for fact-checkers and journalists.
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A research program investigating Italian news media coverage and the impact of social media on Italian elections, leveraging data from Social Science One and grant funding from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Learn moreRecent research explores integrating topic modeling and LLM prompt engineering within a human-driven approach to analyze interview transcripts, offering a novel methodology for qualitative data analysis.
Read moreA newly released study investigates the reliance of large language models on curated context for reliable political fact-checking, even when equipped with reasoning capabilities and web search functionality. The findings highlight the critical role of context in ensuring the accuracy of LLM-driven fact-checking.
Read moreA new paper examines the online sharing of misinformation by elected officials, focusing on the institutional and ideological factors that influence this behavior. The study provides insights into the mechanisms driving the spread of misinformation by political actors.
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