Fabio Giglietto, Claude & Gemini

Research Radio

Science EN ↓ 125 episodes

AI-generated deep dives into computational social science research. Papers curated by Fabio Giglietto, scripts by Anthropic's Claude, narration by Google Gemini.

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Fabio Giglietto, Claude & Gemini

Episodes

FG's Research Radio: LLMs: Can Political Bias Kill Persuasion? 05.03.2026 5:22

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: DiGiuseppe, M. & Robison, J. (2026). Perceived political bias in LLMs reduces persuasive abilities. http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18092v1

FG's Research Radio: ECHO: Breaking Down Walls to Find Communities 03.03.2026 6:24

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Ferrara, E. (2026). ECHO: Encoding Communities via High-order Operators. http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22446v1

FG's Research Radio: AI & Human Insight: Analyzing Interviews the Smart Way 27.02.2026 6:00

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Ober, T., Courey, K. A., & Flor, M. (2026). Integrating topic modeling and LLM prompt engineering into a human-driven approach to analyze interview transcripts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18733521

FG's Research Radio: AI Fact-Check Fail: The Bias & Context Crisis 26.02.2026 4:30

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: DeVerna, M. R., Yang, K., Yan, H. Y., & Menczer, F. (2025). Large language models require curated context for reliable political fact-checking -- even with reasoning and web search. http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749v1

FG's Research Radio: Information Voids: Where Misinformation Thrives 22.02.2026 6:23

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Scalco, I., Gesualdo, F., Cerqueti, R., & Cinelli, M. (2026). How to detect information voids using longitudinal data from social media and web searches. http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15476v1

FG's Research Radio: LLMs: Are We Sacrificing Rigor for AI Magic? 21.02.2026 6:39

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Balluff, P., Ho, J. C., Gruber, J. B., Palicki, S., Palmer, A., Rossi, L., Shklovski, I., & Chan, C. (2026). Newer, larger, better? A critique of the unreflective LLM adoption in communication research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2618486

FG's Research Radio: AI Industry's Imagined Futures: Whose Vision Prevails? 20.02.2026 6:46

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Stanusch, N. & Rogers, R. (2026). How AI is imagined by industry during the Sam Altman controversy. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.174979411.18178682/v1

FG's Research Radio: X Algorithm: How Feeds Shift Political Views 19.02.2026 5:52

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2026). The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2

FG's Research Radio: Climate Misinformation: Why Some Lies Stick Better 18.02.2026 5:59

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Lieu, R., Hayes, O. R., & Cook, J. (2025). Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70049

FG's Research Radio: Facebook Ads: Spotting Election Interference in Brazil 17.02.2026 5:25

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Silva, M. I. D., Oliveira, L. D., Melo, P. O. V. D., Goga, O., & Benevenuto, F. (2026). Identifying potentially irregular electoral ads in Facebook during the Brazilian elections. https://doi.org/10.1145/3796545

FG's Research Radio: Social Media Research: Are Platforms Pulling the Strings? 16.02.2026 5:53

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Heiss, R. & Freiling, I. (2026). Addressing social media platforms’ influence on academic research. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ny2tx_v2

FG's Research Radio: AI Swarms: Democracy's New Digital Threat? 15.02.2026 6:04

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Schroeder, D. T., Cha, M., Baronchelli, A., Bostrom, N., Christakis, N., Garcia, D., Goldenberg, A., Kyrychenko, Y., Leyton-Brown, K., Lutz, N., Marcus, G., Menczer, F., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Schweitzer, F., Summerfield, C., Tang, A., Bavel, J. J. V., Linden, S. V. D., Song, D., & Kunst, J. R. (2026). How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy....

FG's Research Radio: AI Red-Teaming: Whose Values, Whose Labor, Whose Harm? 13.02.2026 6:51

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gillespie, T., Shaw, R., Gray, M. L., & Suh, J. (2026). AI red-teaming is a sociotechnical problem. https://doi.org/10.1145/3731657

FG's Research Radio: Meta's Fact-Checking Fiasco: Truth, Lies, and Free Speech 12.02.2026 6:06

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Cazzamatta, R. (2026). From moderation to chaos: Meta’s fact-checking and the battle over truth and free speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251413687

FG's Research Radio: Reddit's Mushroom Bots: Humans, Memes, and Online Culture 11.02.2026 5:41

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Graham, T. & Carlon, D. (2026). On the Internet no-one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409210

FG's Research Radio: Aging & Online Health: Misinformation's Hidden Target 10.02.2026 5:53

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Lyons, B., King, A. J., Barter, R. L., & Kaphingst, K. A. (2026). Exposure to low-credibility online health content is limited and is concentrated among older adults. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01059-x

FG's Research Radio: Prebunking: Can Short Videos Fight Social Media Lies? 09.02.2026 5:46

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Linden, S. V. D., Louison-Lavoy, D., Blazer, N., Noble, N. S., & Roozenbeek, J. (2026). Prebunking misinformation techniques in social media feeds: Results from an Instagram field study. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-193

FG's Research Radio: Chatbots vs. Fake News: Inoculating Minds, One Conversation at a Time 08.02.2026 5:51

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Szabó, D., Yang, C., Visuri, A., Oppenlaender, J., Sekar, B., Yatani, K., & Hosio, S. (2026). Conversational Inoculation to enhance resistance to misinformation. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.379095

FG's Research Radio: Antivax Tweets: How Misinformation Fueled COVID Deaths 07.02.2026 5:42

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Bollenbacher, J., Menczer, F., & Bryden, J. (2026). Effects of antivaccine tweets on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, and deaths. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00606-1

FG's Research Radio: Narrative Warfare: How Stories Fuel Online Polarization 04.02.2026 6:08

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Elfes, J., Bastos, M., & Aiello, L. M. (2026). On narrative: The rhetorical mechanisms of online polarisation. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07398v1

FG's Research Radio: TikTok's Immigration Battle: Positive Vibes or Xenophobia? 03.02.2026 6:37

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hollingshead, W., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2026). Same platform, different stories: TikTok and the battle over immigration narratives. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.11409

FG's Research Radio: Digital Voter Suppression: How Microtargeting Undermines Elections 02.02.2026 6:26

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Kim, Y. M., Dahlke, R., Song, H., & Heinrich, R. (2026). Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519944123

FG's Research Radio: Journalism for Sale? Unpacking an Austrian Media Scandal 28.01.2026 5:51

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Balluff, P., Eberl, J., Oberhänsli, S. J., Bernhard-Harrer, J., Boomgaarden, H. G., Fahr, A., & Huber, M. (2026). The Austrian political advertisement scandal: Patterns of “journalism for sale”. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241285672

FG's Research Radio: Visual Lies: When Videos and AI Fuel Disinformation 27.01.2026 6:09

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hameleers, M. & Meer, T. V. D. (2026). Beyond textual disinformation: Comparing the effects of textual disinformation to AI-generated and video-based visual disinformation across different issues. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251409208

FG's Research Radio: Influencer Toxicity: When Misinformation Sparks Online Firestorms 25.01.2026 6:10

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Domenico, G. D., Mangió, F., & Dineva, D. (2026). don't you know that you're toxic? how influencer‐driven misinformation fuels online toxicity. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.70106