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.

DDIA Founder and Executive Director Roberta Braga shared research on the prevalent and cross-border meta-narratives impacting discussions about foreign policy and democracy at a Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs roundtable in New York City on on illiberal narratives.

As part of the Americas Society / Council of the Americas 10th Women's Hemispheric Security Conference in Miami, Roberta Braga shared her insights into policy opportunities for Internet governance, tech, and innovation across the Americas.

DDIA hosted two trainings on understanding and countering meta-narratives, false claims, and illicit manipulation online at this year's 3rd ProgressNow Commference in St. Louis, MO. The conference brought together communicators, digital practitioners, and advocates from across the United States.