Agustina Del Campo is a professor of international human rights and internet and human rights law at Universidad de Palermo and Director at the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information of the Universidad de Palermo in Argentina. She co-coordinates the Specialization on Freedom of Expression at Universidad de Buenos Aires and is a guest expert at Columbia University Freedom of Expression Project. Agustina serves as vice chair of the board of the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and as a board member to Access Now. She is a human rights consultant and her publications have explored various fronts of propaganda, especially related to speech and disinformation. Selected publications are Platform Oversight, A neglected link in internet's regulatory futures, Are Public Official's lies unsustainable or do they have far reaching effects? Disinformation in Democracy or the Democracy of Disinformation, Internet and Human Rights III and IV, and Towards an Internet Free of Censorship II, III and IV.
Essay: Alternative Solutions to Disinformation: Address the Sources Rather than the Distribution
Carlos Affonso Souza is a professor at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Carlos is an expert on internet regulation and governance from the Brazilian context. A sample of his work related to our theme is Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights: The Five Roles of Freedom of Expression and Notes on the creation and impacts of Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights
Dang Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society at RMIT University, Australia. Dang’s current research examines informal economic activities within automated media systems, including social media platforms. Dang’s books include Digital research methods and the diaspora (Routledge, 2023), and Internet cures: the social lives of digital miracles (Bristol University Press, forthcoming).
Essay: Automated Propaganda as Platform Imperative? The Case of Instant Articles
Hanani Hlomani is a tech law strategist specializing in innovation, intellectual property law, privacy law, data regulation, and artificial intelligence. His work extensively covers the impact of misinformation, AI, and digital governance on African democracy. He has contributed to various periodicals in South Africa and global ones such as Tech Policy Press and is dedicated to advancing legal frameworks that support technological advancement and societal inclusion. While being a MWI cohort member, Hanani was a Research Fellow at Research ICT Africa and a Cyberlaw Lecturer at the University of Cape Town.
Blog post: Democracy in the Digital Age: Navigating Platforms in Africa's Village Square
Nanjala Nyabola is an independent writer and researcher affiliated with several institutions. Her research interests include digital democracy, gender and feminism, and media. Her insight on how gender relations and Kenyan electoral politics mediate across online platforms is relevant for our theme. Sample publications include Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya. She served as the editor of Where Women Are: Gender & The 2017 Kenyan Elections.
Siddharth Narrain is a lecturer at the Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Australia. His areas of research include media law, constitutional law, and human rights law. His PhD thesis is titled Facebook’s Crowds and Publics: Law, Virality and the Regulation of Hate Speech Online in Contemporary India (UNSW, Sydney, 2023). Siddharth has edited Acts of Media: Law and Media in Contemporary India (SAGE: ICAS-MP, 2022).
Sinta Dewi Rosadi is professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia. Her research interests are information technology, data privacy, and international law, Artificial Intelligence and she produces work in both English and Indonesian. Her expertise on cyberlaw and protecting people’s data aligns with the MWI theme on social media governance and potential futures.
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew is a Sessional Academic at Monash University, Australia and former lecturer in law at School of Law, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. His doctoral research is titled Balancing the rights to freedom of expression and to privacy on the Internet under the African Human Rights System (Faculty of Law, Monash University, 2024). His research interest spans the areas of human rights in the digital age, AI, media law and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). His works include From Digital Authoritarianism to Platforms' Leviathan Power: Freedom of expression in the digital age under siege in Africa.
Blog Post: Tackling Online Propaganda in Internal Armed Conflict Situations in Ethiopia: An Uphill Task?