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Hello & welcome!

I am a researcher specializing in gendered disinformation, fact-checking, and transparency in AI, data, and digital journalism. I am the creator of Forced to Quit, a crowdsourced project that maps female politicians, journalists, and activists who left the public arena due to violence, co-founder of the For Your Information Network, which unites researchers and practitioners, and the co-author of the framework “the triangle of violence,” which is used to study gendered disinformation in a three-fold manner, namely by looking at the victims, the content, and the witnesses affected by the phenomenon. I am very concerned about the societal implications of generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI) on the information ecosystem, including how deepfakes and Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII) primarily affect women and LGBTQIA+ persons, particularly those with intersectional identities (e.g., the interplay of gender and race).

Since 2023, I have worked as an Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. At the university, I am a scholar at the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology, and AI. Before that, I was a fellow at the Digital Democracy Center (DDC) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where I was a postdoc (2022-2023) in the Trust and News Authenticity project. In 2025, I was a fellow at the Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda Group at the Weizenbaum Institute in Germany.

Both my Ph.D. (2022) and Master’s Degree (2018) in Communication and Information were obtained at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The title of my dissertation is The Elements of Transparency in Data Journalism, and it is available (for free) in Portuguese. One year later, I launched the book version of my doctoral research, which Insular published at the end of 2022 as part of a collection of journalism books. Originally trained as a journalist, I worked as a reporter for five years before becoming an academic.