Gisela Pérez de Acha
ABOUT
Gisela Pérez de Acha is the Founder and CEO of FactFinder, an online OSINT school for journalists, private investigators and security researchers. As a journalist, she investigates extremism, AI and conflict zones. Along with the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab, Gisela co-created the first OSINT Reporting class at Berkeley Journalism. She won a Polk Award and an Emmy while she worked there.
Born and raised in Mexico, Gisela was trained as a lawyer before becoming a journalist and speaks fluent Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.
STORIES
TV & CONFERENCES
ACADEMIA
RESEARCH PAPER: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election
2022
Our findings reveal that the 10 most influential bots in our dataset all presented an anti-immigration viewpoint, and both posted original tweets and retweeted other bot accounts’ tweets to give a false sense of authenticity and anti-immigration consensus.
RESEARCH PAPER: Digital Gender Gap in Mexico.
2018
Technology is much more than technical knowledge: it is a political space. Disconnecting has social and economic
implications for everyone in the information society. In this paper, the World Wide Web Foundation researches the digital gender gap in Mexico as well as some of its roots and causes.
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Using Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Imagery to Find Mass Graves in Mexico.
Leveraging Geographic Information Software (GIS) and Open Source methods to investigate two high-profile murders of environmental activists in Brazil.