Fabricio Benevenuto is associate professor in the Computer Science Department of Federal University at Minas Gerais (UFMG). He obtained his PhD. in 2010 and his thesis won the CAPES Thesis award, the most important Brazilian award of its kind.Fabricio is a former member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (2013-2017). In 2017, he received a Humboldt fellowship through which he was a visiting faculty at Max Planck Institute, Germany. Fabricio has been receiving a CNPq scholarship for Productivity in Research since 2013. In 2019, he was a resident professor at the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT) at UFMG. Fabricio is author of widely cited and awarded scientific studies, including the prestigious test-of-time award from the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) and a best nominee at WWW, both in 2020. Currently, Fabricio leads a series of projects dedicated to deploy real systems to counter misinformation in digital platforms.