New paper out on @icsjournal.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Today at #SISCC2026 I presented my research "Stories elections tell: strategic narratives in Italian political news on Facebook". The study uses an LLMs-in-the-loop pipeline to examine how political news during election campaigns is organized around recurring narrative patterns.

and some great insights from several people around getting access to online platform data under the DSA (mainly 40.12 for public data), e.g. @giadam.bsky.social presenting their work on accessing data from large online shopping portals snurb.info/index.php/no... #smad2026 #digitalservicesact

Today I am attending the event Meet the Future of AI: Support for the European Democracy Shield: policy, practice and partnerships in Brussels. Good to see my colleagues from @vera-ai.bsky.social and @euprompt.bsky.social

I will attend in person. Looking forward to meeting and chatting!

In October 2025, veraAI project members based at the University of Urbino (@giadam.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and @brupar.bsky.social) went to Brazil to present and share their research findings at a variety of events. Find out what they did in this post.

Hey #AoIR2025 participants, the upcoming @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School will be highly relevant to many of you:

This #AoIR2025 roundtable on data access is coming to an end. It started a very insightful discussion about the DSA, scraping and the future of accessing data for researchers. Thank all the speakers Josephine Lukito, Jessica Robinson, @snurb.info Richard Rogers @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social

No words #AoIR2025

This morning at #AoIR2025 in Niterói 🇧🇷 I presented a study that’s a joint effort with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and colleagues. We examined how deceptive info operations evolve through cycles of trial & adaptation testing which tactics stick. Feels great to be back at @aoir.bsky.social!

Presenting our research w/ @brupar.bsky.social & @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social this afternoon @ #SISCC2025 (Uni of Cagliari) exploring how emotional reactions and narratives fuel polarization and harm democratic debate in Facebook pro-Bolsonaro communities. Looking forward to discuss this!

🚨Final #veraAI Event is approaching 2️⃣ Half-Day Online Sessions 1️⃣7️⃣ June: Tools + Social Science Research 2️⃣4️⃣ June: Research deep dive Join us to explore AI vs disinformation from all angles! ℹ️ and registration form @ veraai.eu/posts/two-ve...

#AoIR2025 is shaping up! Excited to coordinate a panel on platform polarization in Latin America with @brupar.bsky.social, present my work on LLMs + Brazilian social media and on deceptive information operations on Facebook with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team. Looking forward to it in Niterói! ☀️

📢 New from @euprompt.bsky.social project: In Romania's election re-run, we detected multiple pages simultaneously posting identical content that mixes AI-generated material (read AI slop) with political messaging. Read our full investigation: www.euractiv.ro/facts-not-fa...

The session will be available on-demand on the veraAI website and YouTube channel in a few days!

Even if I have not the opportunity to celebrate properly due to a conference today, buona festa della liberazione a tutt*!

Excited to present tomorrow @ #COMPTEXT25 this 4-step workflow by me and @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social for SM discourse analysis: extracting text features using the 5Ws+H framework, generating embeddings and clustering features with LLMs, detecting narratives through network and qualitative analysis.

We are democratizing coordinated sharing detection! 🚀 Join us to discover the graphical user interface that makes using CooRTweet even easier: tech.ebu.ch/events/2025/...

Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found. #InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.

Hate is very lucrative. A new investigation shows Meta's recent policy changes have created a breeding ground for neo-Nazi content on Instagram, where accounts freely promote hate, antisemitic rhetoric, and Nazi symbols—all while making a profit. globalextremism.org/post/neo-naz...

(1/4) We've dedicated countless hours to examining the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of the real-time APIs mandated by Article 40.12 (aka the CrowdTangle provision) of the Digital Services Act—so you don't have to.

Want to help build a safer, more transparent digital world? Interested in tech, testing, network analysis & #disinfomation? Then become a beta tester for the Coordinated Sharing Detection Service, powered by #CooRTweet, developed by @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team www.veraai.eu/posts/beta-t...

Building on a report released in 2022, our new 2024 study, “Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media,” examines factors that predict belief in pro-Kremlin disinfo narratives. socialmedialab.ca/2024/03/12/n...

Here's a summary of a conference organised by some of us. Topic: multimodal and cross-platform coordinated behavior detection. Held at the University of Sheffield on 29 October 2024, in conjunction with AoIR 2024. www.veraai.eu/posts/coordi...

New article "Cracking Open the European Newsfeed" by @lrossi.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and me available on @journalqd.bsky.social. It longitudinally (2019-2022) analyzes the spread and impact of low-quality info on FB in Italy, France, and Germany. t.ly/w4dPJ