Senior Fellows

Lori Regattieri

Senior Fellow, Trustworthy AI

2022-2023

Brazil

Dr. Lori Regattieri is a digital strategist and movement builder working across the social, environmental, and climate justice spaces. As an activist and communications advisor, she has more than 15 years dedicated to campaigns, mobilization, and collective action supporting grassroots movements in Brazil. In 2021, she completed her PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with the thesis “Algorithmization of life: the debate about the Amazon forest and the forest fires on Twitter in 2020.”

Over the years, her research has focused on science and technology studies (STS), digital assets and infrastructures, media ecology, propaganda and disinformation, reparation epistemologies, and decolonial approaches to increase fairness and reduce bias in AI. Lori is co-editor of the feminist magazine DR, research associate at Netlab (UFRJ), and member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies (LAVITS).

Fellowship Project

Lori focused on the critical intersection of AI, climate justice, and disinformation, advocating for different policies to combat harmful recommendation systems and algorithms on social media platforms. She supported policy interventions by co-leading a movement within Brazil to push back against recommendation systems spreading false narratives about the climate. She also held meetings with policymakers about the regulatory framework of Brazil’s Freedom, Responsibility and Transparency on the Internet Bill. Lori conducted analysis of the storming of the Brazilian capital on January 8, 2023, making connections between the event and Brazil’s “information crisis.”