DDIA’s Senior Consultant Researcher participated in the 2025 Science Journalism Forum, presenting findings from our study on Spanish-language cancer misinformation. The research analyzed over 27,000 posts across major social media platforms, revealing how false narratives spread and affect Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking communities.

DDIA’s Executive Director, Roberta Braga, joined a Chatham House panel in London to discuss Brazil’s role in leading the BRICS bloc amid shifting global dynamics and U.S. trade policies, highlighting the country’s potential influence in shaping multilateral cooperation and global governance.

Our Founder and Executive Director, Roberta Braga, served as a panelist at the MIT Solve Challenge, an annual event in New York City that unveils Solve’s latest cohort of innovators and highlights their solutions to pressing global challenges.

Roberta Braga of DDIA joined a panel of advocacy and communications experts at the United Nations to offer lessons learned on approaches to messaging, audience engagement, and campaigning, and practical advice about how the justice community can break out of its communication “bubble.”

DDIA Founder and Executive Director Roberta Braga joined the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City on September 10, 2025, for its second Illiberal Narratives Workshop.

DDIA's Roberta Braga and Cristina Tardaguila led a training at Netroots Nation 2025 on prebunking, a proactive strategy to help communicators recognize tactics of manipulation online and create content that builds community resilience to misinformation.

On Wednesday, July 30, TikTok launched its Footnotes content moderation program in the United States. At the launch event in New York City, DDIA Founder and Executive Director Roberta Braga shared latest recommendations for improving the efficacy of community-driven content moderation systems based on lessons learned from a DDIA deep dive into X's Community Notes program.

On July 9, 2025, the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) hosted a briefing to share the first bilingual analysis of X’s community moderation tool. Based on over 1.7 million Community Notes, the presentation revealed how the system functions, identified language-based disparities, and offered data-driven insights into participation patterns and platform design challenges in decentralized moderation.