Luiz Romero
PolitiFact
Reporter, fact-checker
Milan, Italy / Berlin, Germany
2021-present Fact-checking for social media platforms and reporting on misinformation and disinformation for PolitiFact, an American fact-checking newsroom.

Internal fact-checking for TikTok and Meta (Facebook and Instagram). Published fact-checks on vaccines, elections, protests and conspiracies. Reporting on Russian propaganda on Ukraine. Line-by-line fact-checking of AI-generated content.
Quartz
Reporter, editor
São Paulo, Brazil / New York, US
2016-2020Reporting, writing and editing breaking news for American news startup Quartz across web, mobile and newsletters  

Reporting on the migrant crisis from Hungary and the pandemic from Italy for the Quartz site. Breaking news coverage of the Donald Trump presidency, the Brexit vote and European Union elections for the Brief news app and newsletter. Articles on globalization for the Objects book.
Benetton
Reporter
São Paulo, Brazil / Treviso, Italy
2017Reporting and writing on fashion for Clothes for Humans, a magazine distributed by Benetton. 

Stories on protest gear in Brazil, winter festival costumes in Europe and horse rider blankets in Lesotho.
Centro
Reporter, editor
São Paulo, Brazil
2015-2016
Reporting, writing and editing on creative communities for Centro, a Brazilian digital project profiling creatives living in downtown São Paulo. 

Profiles of the publisher of Amarello magazine, the gallerist behind Pivô, the party-makers at Balsa and Lâmina, and reporting on the transformation of the districts Sé, República, Luz and Liberdade.
Colors
Reporter
Treviso, Italy
2013-2014Reporting and writing on global culture for Colors magazine, an Italian magazine published by Benetton. 

Stories on migration routes in Mexico and border vigilantes in the US; protest movements in Brazil and Palestine, surveillance camera destruction and protest gear; broken art, monochromatic art, forged art in China and state art in North Korea; and football communities in Iran, Spain and Ghana.
Super
Reporter, editor
São Paulo, Brazil
2012-2013
Reporting, writing and editing explanatory journalism for Brazilian magazine Super. 

Articles on the Large Hadron Collider, the Museum of Modern Art design collection and Islamic State propaganda strategies. Infographics on hostage negotiations, weather forecasting, pickpocketing, whale hunting and deep-sea diving.
Mundo
Reporter
São Paulo, Brazil
2010-2011 Reporting and writing explanatory journalism for Brazilian magazine Mundo. 

Infographics on autopsies, the Richter scale, spacesuits, the Megalodon shark and cachaça..
I’m a freelance journalist. I’ve worked as fact-checker for TikTok, Facebook and Instagram at PolitiFact; breaking news reporter at Quartz; and reporter at Colors magazine in Italy and Super magazine in Brazil. I’ve published articles in CNN, Wired and Al Jazeera, and contributed OSINT research for Bellingcat. I’m from São Paulo and based in Berlin.
2025