Karen Rebelo is an independent journalist reporting on technology and its impacts on people in India.
Karen was a Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute in 2025 where her project focused on algorithmic accountability in India and lessons for journalists beyond.
She previously worked as the deputy editor at BOOM Live – one of India’s earliest fact-checking newsrooms in which she played a pivotal role in helping set up by establishing editorial and verification processes.
Her own reporting focussed on political misinformation, disinformation campaigns and tech facilitated gender based violence.
In 2018, she led fact-checking workshops for journalists across six Indian cities as part of the Google News Initiative, in which she also helped develop the curriculum. A few of the participants in her workshops have gone on to set up their own fact-checking newsrooms.
She spearheaded efforts channeling experts in academia in India and the United States and start-ups to build a detection ecosystem for deepfake content in the 2024 general election in India.
She also authored a report on the use of AI in elections for the Center for Media Engagement - The University of Texas at Austin.
