Riccardo Gallotti
Head of @ CHuB lab at Digital Society Center. He is an interdisciplinary physicist working on statistical modeling of individual and collective behavior. His research is based on data science and complexity science, with a focus on problems associated with misinformation and decision-making processes, mobility characterization, and the study of public transportation networks.
Spotlight's articles
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December 9, 2025FBK in Brussels to support the European Democracy ShieldResearch, innovation, and shared strategies to strengthen democratic resilience in the age of online disinformation. -
November 26, 2025Those who speak poorly, think poorly and live poorlyRiccardo Gallotti interviews Luca De Biase: an unprecedented, inverted dialogue between a scientist and a journalist in the name of media ecology—combining critical analysis of today’s information landscape with proposals for interventions that help redefine the rules of the game to promote information quality. -
November 4, 2025What a 400-Million-Tweet study revealed about the “War on Science”The European project “Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates” (UnMiSSeD) aims at understanding the overlap between science and misinformation with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. -
October 30, 2025What a Brain-Simulating Model Revealed About the Hidden Rules of Human CooperationKey findings from “AI@TN: study of Cooperative AI frameworks” - funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento and authored by Bruno Lepri and Laura Ferrarotti (from MobS @ FBK), and Riccardo Gallotti and Lucila Alvarez-Zuzek (from CHuB Lab @ FBK). -
October 4, 2025Conversations with MachinesGenerative AI now knows how to persuade more than a human being: Riccardo Gallotti at Wired Next Fest 2025 discusses the risks and opportunities of this new form of persuasion -
September 29, 2025Wired Next Fest 2025 TrentinoFondazione Bruno Kessler will be one of the key participants at WIRED Next Fest Trentino 2025, taking place in Rovereto October 2 through 5. The Foundation's events will explore topics such as green hydrogen and the energy transition, citizen science, digital justice, AI in medicine, complex systems, human-machine interaction, and intelligent robotics. -
May 20, 2025Artificial Intelligence (AI) now more persuasive than humans in debates?The findings of the study conducted by the Complex Human Behaviour Laboratory at FBK, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), and Princeton University (USA) were published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour. -
April 3, 2025AI4Trust, artificial intelligence against misinformationRiccardo Gallotti presented the European project that combines AI, fact-checking and journalism to fight fake news online at SkyTG24 -
November 14, 2024Complex Systems: Understanding Complexity to Address Global ChallengesComplex Systems Society promotes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing societal challenges: new members include 3 FBK researchers. -
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March 5, 2024Generative AI and disinformation: advances, challenges and opportunitiesFour European projects join forces against disinformation with advanced AI models. New white paper from European digital media observatory available online -
January 16, 2024Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal DebatesIn a new research project, we explore the interaction between misinformation and science on social media during COVID-19. The UnMiSSeD project brings in not only computational social sciences but also media and communication studies and has clear connections to science communication. -
July 25, 2023Climate change and misinformationA study of tweets about the Marmolada tragedy was presented this summer at the SETE Festival in Rovereto. To explore further, we asked Riccardo Gallotti, head of the CHuB Unit at FBK's Digital Society Center, and Veronica Orsanigo, a future doctoral student, a few questions -
May 6, 2023Algorithms against fake newsArtificial intelligence as a valuable ally for press and fact-checkers in promoting truthful and accurate information -
March 23, 2023Reducing the spread of contagions with targeted hygiene in crowded environmentsFBK has collaborated on a scientific study published in Nature Communications -
March 8, 2023AI4TRUST: Artificial intelligence to reduce online disinformationFake news is a big challenge for society, and artificial intelligence can help. The European project will improve factchecking by testing new methodologies and tools and automatically analyzing text, audio and video sources in 7 different languages -
June 9, 2022Complexity Article of the Year 2021 for an FBK paper on Adaptive Urban Policy-Making"Complex Urban Systems: Challenges and Integrated Solutions for the Sustainability and Resilience of Cities" is the title of the awarded paper, published in Complexity - special issue "The Complexity of Mobility and Human Dynamics in Cities", and coauthored by Riccardo Gallotti, leader of the Complex Human Behaviour Lab @ FBK Digital Society Center. -
January 22, 2021Unraveling the hidden organisation of urban systems and their mobility flowsPublished on EPJ Data Science the Open Access new scientific paper authored by the FBK - CoMuNe Lab researchers Riccardo Gallotti, Giulia Bertagnolli and Manlio De Domenico -
October 21, 2020How does the connectivity of the communication networks (mentions, replies) responds to certain banning (or dismantling) strategies?A recently published article by FBK researchers provides new insights about how the presence or absence of moderation in online interacting contexts shape the organization and the communicative functioning of the underlying systems. -
March 24, 2020Measuring fake news about Covid-19Too many countries are exposed to fake news: the CoMuNe Lab research unit (FBK) has analyzed conversations on twitter on a global level, discovering that the behavior of users and bots on social media produced faults in the correct information, especially in Italy before the arrival of the first cases of contagion