• Associate Editor and Research Associate, Latin America

Luiza Bandeira

Luiza Bandeira is the associate editor and a research associate for Latin America at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based in Colombia.

Luiza Bandeira is a Brazilian multimedia journalist with 10 years’ experience. She has worked for the BBC World Service, in London, and with some of the most important news outlets in Brazil, such as Folha de S.Paulo and Nexo. During the 2018 elections, Luiza was the leader of El Poder de Elegir Brasil, a fact-checking project focused on WhatsApp. She is currently a researcher for the DFRLab (Digital Forensics Research Lab), a center of the DC-based think tank Atlantic Council. As a researcher, she investigates disinformation campaigns in Latin America. She has obtained an MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics.

May 2021

Facebook removes network boosting Mexican mayoral campaign

by Luiza Bandeira, Alyssa Kann

Assets promoted Mexico’s National Action Party
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February 2021

Weaponized: How rumors about COVID-19’s origins led to a narrative arms race

by Luiza Bandeira, Nika Aleksejeva, Tessa Knight, Jean le Roux, Graham Brookie, Iain Robertson, Andy Carvin, Zarine Kharazian

A joint research project from the Digital Forensic Research Lab and the Associate Press on information environments during the first six months of COVID-19.
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December 2020

The post-COVID world this week: Mass vaccination begins in the UK, Pakistan struggles with anti-vaccination sentiment, and disinformation overwhelms scientific responses in isolated countries

by Atlantic Council

What can we expect from a post-COVID world after a pandemic that has reshaped international affairs? A world in which disinformation overwhelms scientific responses worldwide.
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