When removing bylines isn’t enough: how can journalists safely investigate tech in 2025?
Ven 11 aprile 2025
14:00 - 14:50
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Big Tech companies - and the CEOs who lead them - are accumulating more power by the day.
Holding power to account requires access to information, something these companies are making increasingly difficult. Transparency tools are being restricted, researchers’ accounts are being shut down, legal intimidation tactics are being used to suppress accountability, all while media outlets are struggling to stay afloat in a hostile funding environment.
So how do journalists keep investigating technology while staying safe? The risks are especially stark for journalists in the Global South, where the protections are often weaker and the threats severe.
What does safety and protection look like in 2025 when covering tech? And what strategies - beyond removing bylines - can journalists use to continue this vital public interest work?
Moderated by Alexandra Buccianti.
Sponsored by Luminate.
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Alexandra Buccianti
Alexandra Buccianti is Principal, Global Programmes at Luminate. In her role as Principal, Alexandra leads the Global Programmes team’s work to support global and transregional organisations and initiatives in their efforts to ensure technology upholds human rights and social justice. Alexandra brings extensive experience of designing and implementing media support and development projects, working at the local, regional and global levels and with a wide range of partners around the world. Before joining Luminate, Alexandra worked in Search for Common Ground’s Strategy Alignment team, where she was leading the media for peacebuilding and social and behaviour change communication programming globally. Prior to that, Alexandra worked at BBC Media Action and led media projects with a focus on governance, accountability, youth engagement and humanitarian programming, working with a diverse set of independent media and civil society organisations on capacity strengthening, public interest co-productions, policy and research as well as media viability. Alexandra is a published author and public speaker on media and politics.
Carlos Gaio
Carlos Gaio is CEO at Media Defence, a London-based international NGO that provides legal defence to journalists around the world. Prior to joining Media Defence, Carlos worked for 10 years as senior lawyer at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He also worked for human rights foundations and NGOs in the UK and in Brazil, specialising in human rights law, litigation before international mechanisms, and government and intergovernmental advocacy. Carlos holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Essex, UK, and an LLB from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. He has been called to the Brazilian Bar.
Karen Hao
Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series, a program training journalists around the world on how to cover AI. She was formerly a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering American and Chinese tech companies, and a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. Her work is regularly taught in universities and cited by governments. She has received numerous accolades for her coverage, including an American Humanist Media Award and American National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30. She received her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT.