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 REDESCover newsletter features emerging narratives and updates about information disorder spreading in Latino spaces online in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Access reference guides for front-line communicators engaging Latino communities in the United States. These tips for creating content that sticks are based on findings from "Conversations with Latinos: What Makes Content Stick? How U.S. Latinos Navigate Today’s Digital Information Ecosystem," a qualitative study by the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), in partnership with Factchequeado, that explored how Latinos experience today’s digital information landscape.

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.

The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), in partnership with Factchequeado, today releases “Conversations with Latinos: What Makes Content Stick?” a report on how U.S. Latinos navigate today’s digital information ecosystem. Drawing from qualitative boards and in-depth interviews, the study reveals Latinos’ digital habits, trust cues, perceptions of online harms and AI-generated content, and Big Tech’s role in democracy. The findings offer actionable insights for journalists, policymakers, creators, and platforms seeking to produce more engaging, relatable, and impactful content for Latino communities.

“Conversations with Latinos” explores how U.S. Latinos experience today’s digital world, from the content they prefer to consume on social media to the ways they detect harmful information, view AI-generated content, and understand Big Tech’s role in democracy. Conducted by the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) in partnership with Factchequeado, this qualitative study combines online boards and in-depth interviews.

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.”