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Disinformation goes hand in hand with the engagement business model of digital companies
“Disinformation is about manipulation and goes hand in hand with the development of company technologies, such as Facebook and Twitter, towards an engagement business model.” This is how Lori Regattieri, a ten-year researcher on fake news on digital platforms and creator of Ecomídia, explains the environment of misinformation on the internet…
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Civil society organizations discuss how to combat and contain disinformation in Brazil
Around 30 organizations, which make up the Articulation Room against Disinformation, met to take stock and outline perspectives for combating disinformation in Brazil. The dialogue was organized into four sessions: Platforms, TSE and civil society; Socio-environmental denialism and gender and racial political violence; Paths to regulation and systematization of…
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Forest fires and disinformation in Brazil: state propagandists against the climate justice movement.
Lori Regattieri presented the article “Disinformation on a Scale in Brazil: The Case of State Propagandists Against the Climate Justice Movement” at the Workshop (March 9-10, 2022) organized by the Technology and Social Change Project, at the Shorenstein Center, at Harvard Kennedy School. The event addressed the challenges of research on disinformation and sought to identify…
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Internet and Inequality is a course theme
Lori Regattieri is one of the guest professors of the second edition of the Internet and Inequality course, by Ação Educativa. The course seeks to offer an introduction to the debates surrounding inequalities in access, use and development of the internet. Through the curation of data, reflections and concepts about the internet as a catalyst for rights, it discusses…
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“Algorithmization of life” is selected to compete for the CAPES Theses award
The thesis “Algorithmization of life: the debate on the Amazon and forest fires on Twitter in 2020”, by Lori Regattieri, was nominated for the CAPES Thesis Award 2022. The work, defended in November 2021, investigates aspects of the algorithmization of life in the countryside of communication, establishing a case study on the debate on Twitter during…
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Artificial Intelligence: Lori Regattieri is one of the seven selected by the Mozilla Foundation to act for a reliable and democratic internet.
For the first time, the Mozilla Foundation forms a select group of experts to promote a healthy environment on the Internet. According to the organization itself, which created the initiative in March 2021, “prejudice, lack of transparency and poor data governance” are some of the obstacles that prevent Artificial Intelligence (AI) from being useful to improve…
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