Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) – is an independent university that offers an innovative educational approach at its four Departments: Economics and Finance, Business and Management, Law, and Political Science. Luiss is well renowned for its research activities, aimed at producing knowledge and innovations, contributing to the scientific debate as well as to the benefit of economic, social and cultural development with an international perspective. Luiss Data Lab and Luiss School of Journalism, both under the direction of Gianni Riotta, has been partner of the Horizon 2020 SOMA aimed at supporting, coordinating and guiding the efforts of researchers, fact-checkers, journalists and society at large in the fight to online and social disinformation. In MediaFutures Luiss put efforts in supporting all partners during the project with the aim to to give our contribution in setting up a virtual european data innovation hub.

LUISS Data Lab is a research center that carries out basic and applies research in the field of Big Data and digital transformation, relying on a multidisciplinary perspective, quantitative and qualitative, comparative and focused on political, economic and social case studies with ad hoc narratives and video graphs. Data Lab has been a partner of the Horizon 2020 SOMA project “Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis” ICT 28d-2018 – Future Hyper-connected Sociality and, with its director, Gianni Riotta, is part of the High Level group of the European Union as well as a member of the EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory) Advisory Board. Since 2019 Data Lab hosts, ALETHEIA Centre of Excellence, an European research laboratory established to promote research and knowledge exchange on issues related to information, professional correctness, the fight against misinformation and forced polarization in the media, on and offline. The partners are: CNR, Princeton University, Harvard University, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Università Statale di Milano, T6 Ecosystems, Adapt, Catchy; Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Alkemy and others.
Luiss School of Journalism has an innovative teaching and research programme focus on enduring skills and values as well as new techniques and technologies that are changing the way stories are told and consumed in today’s digital world. The structure relies on a consolidated network of academic and journalistic relations at both national and international level. The school is committed to promoting innovative educational activities, including data-driven journalism and storytelling, data analysis and visualization, media literacy and e-literacy, and science communication.