Jean Wyllys is a Brazilian writer, journalist and former politician who was the first gay-rights activist in the Brazilian congress. His advocation for minority rights, especially for the LGBTI-Community, are subject of the documentary "Entre os Homens de Bem" (Among Virtuous Men) by Carlos Juliano Barros and Caio Cavechini.
In 2019 Wyllys had to give up his Congress seat due to increasing death threats after his colleague and friend Marielle Franco – a lesbian, left-wing politician – was killed in the middle of the street. He went into exile to Europe but nevertheless continues his political work from there.

Since End of 2019, he is lecturer and researcher at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University as a visiting fellow within the ALARI Scolars at Risk program. Combining the long experience (eight years) as a victim of fake news and hate speech due to sexual orientation, including communication strategies and policies thought of as antidotes during this experiment, his research aims to understand, through literature review  and observation of other contexts in which these phenomena are also present, such as fake news and hate speech articulate with each other and impact voter subjectivities in political and decision-making processes.

Fernanda Bruno is an Associate Professor at Post-Graduation Program of Communication and Culture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the Director of the  MediaLab.UFRJ and a Senior Researcher at National Scientific Council (CNPq), Brazil. Fernanda is a co-founder of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies - LAVITS and she was a Visiting Researcher at médialab and at the Center for International Studies of Sciences Po Paris (2010_2011) and a Visiting Senior Research at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London (2019_2020). Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University. Her books include Máquinas de ver, modos de ser: vigilância, tecnologia e subjetividade (Sulina, 2013) e Tecnopolíticas da Vigilância: perspectivas da margem (2018, Boitempo). She is co-editor of the Revista DR.

Beatriz Polivanov is a tenured professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, as well as at the Communication Post-Graduation Program at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at the University of McGill, Canada, from 2019 to 2020. She holds a PhD and MA in Communication by UFF, and a BA in Arts by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She is the leader of the research group MiDICom (Digital Media, Identity and Communication). Her research interests involve social network platforms; self-performance; consumption practices; gender studies.