In October 2025, veraAI project members based at the University of Urbino (@giadam.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and @brupar.bsky.social) went to Brazil to present and share their research findings at a variety of events. Find out what they did in this post.

Herzog e Zuenir Ventura apontaram vazio cultural em 1971

grateful to @snurb.info for liveblogging my talk on elections, platforms & polarization at #AoIR2025🇧🇷 really nice summary of the key themes and questions discussed. read it here: snurb.info/node/3452

did we?! 👀

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

when you read something about him and Brazil, remember: Brazil possesses significant rare earth element (REE) reserves, around 23% of the global total. unnfortunately, we’ve seen these narratives so many times, and we’re seeing them again right now in many parts of the world...

a barbárie como norma e implementada por "política pública de segurança"

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

o Brasil é do povo brasileiro.

glad to be here at @qutdmrc.bsky.social as a visiting fellow for the next few months!

Presenting our research w/ @brupar.bsky.social & @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social this afternoon @ #SISCC2025 (Uni of Cagliari) exploring how emotional reactions and narratives fuel polarization and harm democratic debate in Facebook pro-Bolsonaro communities. Looking forward to discuss this!

best city 🤝 best conference

as a young researcher, I must admit that one of the challenges of studying a non-western context is that your work is almost always treated as a case study. you're expected to specify the country or context in your title... and your "case study" often ends up being seen as the exception to the rule

#AoIR2025 is shaping up! Excited to coordinate a panel on platform polarization in Latin America with @brupar.bsky.social, present my work on LLMs + Brazilian social media and on deceptive information operations on Facebook with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team. Looking forward to it in Niterói! ☀️

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo

🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication! Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

What a disaster for scholars studying #disinformation, #misinformation, the spreading of information / narratives and such like in the US: the National Science Foundation cancels hundreds of respective research grants.

watching #SpaceForce after these last few months just makes so much sense now!

feliz por ter tido a honra de traduzir esse retrato da minha geração, tão poser e precária

We are democratizing coordinated sharing detection! 🚀 Join us to discover the graphical user interface that makes using CooRTweet even easier: tech.ebu.ch/events/2025/...

🚨Atenção que em junho vai ter curso de Bateson na UBU🚨

Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found. #InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.

In our latest investigation, we unveiled a large coordinated operation on Facebook employing AI-generated images to drive traffic to a network of traditional fake news websites. It's 2016 all over again 😱

I'm Still Here wins Best International Feature Film at the #Oscars This is the first win for Brazil in this category.

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#OutNow in #iCS This study explores how CitizenGO uses social media to mainstream and transnationalize its agenda, revealing a sophisticated network for coordinating and amplifying anti-gender messages across languages and regions. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

🥳 Congratulations to our colleagues @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social & @maikovska.bsky.social on their latest publication! Their study, w/ @brupar.bsky.social, Zsófia Cseri & Sofia Iriarte is now out in Information, Communication & Society 📖

📢 New publication! Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti.bsky.social + @aytalina.bsky.social + Zsófia Cseri + Sofia Iriarte + Kateryna Maikovska ✨

All’interno delle istituzioni in Brasile c’è una forza in grado di rovesciarle: l’esercito. È la spada di Damocle che pende sul paese. L'opinione di Vanessa Barbara: intern.az/1LrT

Check out our new study on populist discursive strategies during the 2022 Brazilian presidential election campaign on Twitter (w/ @raquelrecuero.bsky.social). If you don't have access to it, send me an email or DM. #academicsky link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

one of the few foreign articles talking about the true story behind I'm Still Here, be sure to read it!

A empresa agora diz que permite “alegações de doença mental ou anormalidade baseada em gênero ou orientação sexual, discurso político e religioso sobre transgeneridade e homossexualidade e o uso comum e não sério de palavras como ‘esquisito’”. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Want to help build a safer, more transparent digital world? Interested in tech, testing, network analysis & #disinfomation? Then become a beta tester for the Coordinated Sharing Detection Service, powered by #CooRTweet, developed by @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team www.veraai.eu/posts/beta-t...

Today at the Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication, held at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of University of Catania, Italy. Discussant: Professor Roberta Bracciale, University of Pisa #compol24

un po' di #Brasile a #Perugia #americanistica

last night I finished watching #BabyReindeer. it was disturbingly good. about the curiosity surrounding the "real" Martha: it isn’t important to know who she is, for goodness’ sake! it reminded me of the hunt for #ElenaFerrante 's real identity, really awful

graças ao fuso horário, o @iclnoticias.bsky.social primeira edição é o meu jornal do almoço #iclnoticias #icl

com certeza o maior golpe do neoliberalismo em SP #sabesp