In recent years, fact-checking organizations have found themselves at the intersection of disinformation campaigns, political pressure, and public mistrust. Framed alternately as "saviors of truth" an...
Tai Nalon
Tai Nalon is one of the founders and the executive director of Aos Fatos, an award-winning organization based in Brazil focused on AI and tech-driven journalism to combat disinformation. She's also a 2026 visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.
Tai has been recognized as one of the most innovative leaders in journalism by fundraising, developing, and managing creative projects that tackle misinformation while also publishing relevant investigations on the role digital platforms and politicians play in Brazilian democracy. She’s currently producing a documentary series together with Aos Fatos about the evolution of the disinformation ecosystems around the world in the past decade.
Tai Nalon leads the team that won the 2020 Gabriel García Márquez Award on Innovation; the 2025 Digital Media Americas for best News Site; and was a finalist for the 2019 Online Journalism Awards on General Excellence for micro-newsrooms and the 2023 Sigma Awards — among others.
She worked for nearly five years for Brazil’s most reputable newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, always with a focus on national politics and public policies. Tai holds a degree in Social Communication, major Journalism, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
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