Fabio Giglietto
@fabiogiglietto.bsky.social
Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
Communication & Media Studies
42%
Sociology
17%
#toread #paper Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation by Renee Lieu, Oliver R. Hayes, John Cook https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70049
#toread #paper The Tate-space on YouTube: Ambient ideology and the limits of platform moderation by Bernhard Rieder, Bastian August, Brogan Latil https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409209
#toread #paper A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages by Jan G. Voelkel et al. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/xwceg_v2
#toread #paper Cross-national evidence of disproportionate media visibility for the Radical Right in the 2024 European elections by Íris Damião et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05826v1
#toread #paper Prigozhin’s propaganda team: The st Petersburg internet research agency (2013–2021) by Serge Poliakoff, Florian Toepfl https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2588334
#toread #paper “Meet the new boss – Same as the old boss”: A longitudinal study of political post sentiment and Facebook engagement by Anders Olof Larsson https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v31i1.14448
#toread #paper Social bots as agenda-builders: Evaluating the impact of algorithmic amplification on organizational messaging by Phillip Arceneaux et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726x.2025.2606676
Reposted by Axel Bruns, Timothy Graham
New preprint: Meta's political content policy cut Italian MPs' reach by 72%.
But this is just Italy. If you have Meta Content Library access, you can run this for your country. Germany? France? Brazil?
🔗 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8dqag_v2 📁 github.com/fabiogiglietto/mcl-political-reach-study
But this is just Italy. If you have Meta Content Library access, you can run this for your country. Germany? France? Brazil?
🔗 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8dqag_v2 📁 github.com/fabiogiglietto/mcl-political-reach-study
#toread #paper The logic of connective faction: How digitally networked elites and hyper-partisan media radicalize politics by Curd B. Knüpfer, Yunkang Yang, Mike Cowburn https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2604708
#toread #paper The Generative AI Paradox: GenAI and the erosion of trust, the corrosion of information verification, and the demise of truth by Emilio Ferrara http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00306v1
#toread #paper Sky News Australia as network propaganda... by Copland, Simon, Bruns, Axel, Graham, Timothy https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Sky%20News%20Australia%20as%20network%20propaganda%3A%20how%20a%20niche%20cable%20channel%20became%20an%20international%20right-wing%20propaganda%20machine
#toread #paper Research opportunities and challenges of the EU's Digital Services Act by Pierri, Francesco et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Research%20opportunities%20and%20challenges%20of%20the%20EU%27s%20Digital%20Services%20Act
GitHub - fabiogiglietto/research-radio: Convert academic papers into AI podcast episodes with Google Gemini. Powers FG's Research Radio.
Convert academic papers into AI podcast episodes with Google Gemini. Powers FG's Research Radio. - fabiogiglietto/research-radio
github.com
I made it for myself, but the code's open source if you want to spin up your own: github.com/fabiogigliet...
Reposted by Bruno Arpino, Johannes Breuer
FG's Research Radio
AI-generated deep dives into computational social science research. Papers curated by Fabio Giglietto, discussions produced by Google Gemini.
fabiogiglietto.github.io
Happy 2026! 🎉
I finally built the thing I'd had in mind for a while: FG's Research Radio, AI-generated audio deep dives into computational social science papers. It pulls from my PaperPile reading list, so I can catch up on papers while walking or driving
fabiogiglietto.github.io/research-rad...
I finally built the thing I'd had in mind for a while: FG's Research Radio, AI-generated audio deep dives into computational social science papers. It pulls from my PaperPile reading list, so I can catch up on papers while walking or driving
fabiogiglietto.github.io/research-rad...
#toread #paper Large Language Models for data annotation and synthesis: A survey by Zhen Tan et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13446v3
#toread #paper Bridging the narrative divide: Cross-platform discourse networks in fragmented ecosystems by Gerard, Patrick et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Bridging%20the%20narrative%20divide%3A%20Cross-platform%20discourse%20networks%20in%20fragmented%20ecosystems
#toread #paper The tip of the iceberg: How the social media production-consumpt... by Oswald, Lisa et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The%20tip%20of%20the%20iceberg%20How%20the%20social%20media%20productionconsumption%20gap%20distorts%20public%20opinion%20for%20citizens%20and%20researchers
#toread #paper Attributing coordinated social media manipulation: A theoretical model and typology by Thiele, Daniel et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Attributing%20coordinated%20social%20media%20manipulation%20A%20theoretical%20model%20and%20typology
#toread #paper Detecting coordinated activities through temporal, multiplex, and collaborative analysis by Iannucci, Letizia et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Detecting%20coordinated%20activities%20through%20temporal%20multiplex%20and%20collaborative%20analysis
#toread #paper The post-API age of social media data access: Past, present, and future by Freelon, Deen et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The%20postAPI%20age%20of%20social%20media%20data%20access%20Past%20present%20and%20future
Reposted by Martin Husovec, Fabio Giglietto
Daphne Keller
@daphnek.bsky.social
· Dec 15
How the Meaning of 'Publicly Accessible' Shapes Researcher Data Rights Under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press
Researchers eager to begin work under DSA Article 40(12) may be deterred by uncertainty about what data counts as 'publicly accessible,' writes Daphne Keller.
www.techpolicy.press
My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
In the wake of the tragedy in Australia today, someone took the time to create a fake news website and made up a white “IT professional” named "Edward Crabtree" and claimed he stopped the Bondi shooting.
The real hero is a man named Ahmed Al Ahmed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
The real hero is a man named Ahmed Al Ahmed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
The Fundamental Law of Disinformation Covariance: We assert that disinformation is not an independent variable, but a dependent function of event saliency
Reposted by Fabio Giglietto
Social Media Lab
@socialmedialab.ca
· Dec 15
In the wake of the tragedy in Australia today, someone took the time to create a fake news website and made up a white “IT professional” named "Edward Crabtree" and claimed he stopped the Bondi shooting.
The real hero is a man named Ahmed Al Ahmed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
The real hero is a man named Ahmed Al Ahmed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
For the historians of platforms' policies out there: Meta has changed its policy on Inauthentic Behavior: transparency.meta.com/policies/com....
#toread #paper Rabble-rousers in the new king's court: Algorithmic effects on account visibility in pre-X... by Efstratiou, Alexandros et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Rabblerousers%20in%20the%20new%20kings%20court%20Algorithmic%20effects%20on%20account%20visibility%20in%20preX%20twitter
#toread #paper ‘More than a feeling’ – Facebook reactions and the sharing of political ... by Kalsnes, Bente, Larsson, Anders Olof https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=More%20than%20a%20feeling%20Facebook%20reactions%20and%20the%20sharing%20of%20political%20posts%20during%20Scandinavian%20elections
Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws
Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
€40m of the fine was specifically for data access breaches affecting researchers. The inadequate Google form X created to falsely demonstrate DSA compliance wasted many hours of researchers' time and this portion of the fine should be redistributed to the affected scholars as compensation