Heloisa Massaro

Director, Research and Operations

Director of Research and Operations at InternetLab. MSc in Sociology of Law at the University of São Paulo, where she also earned her Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B., 2018). She was a visiting student at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po – Paris), focusing on Human Rights (2016-2017), on a scholarship based on academic merit from the International Exchange Scholarship Program – University of São Paulo. She was a researcher of the Human Rights Law Clinic at FDUSP (2014-2015), and also of the Nucleus of Law Anthropology at FFLCH-USP (2015-2016). At InternetLab, she is responsible for overseeing research projects, representing the organization, and managing the organization’s operational, administrative, and financial facets. Her areas of expertise include content moderation and platform regulation; political communication, elections, and electoral law in the digital realm; misinformation and disinformation; freedom of speech; and personal data protection.