Lam Thuy Vo

Audacity Media Lab We help reporters, editors, storytellers and others produce audacious journalism that makes change.

Introducing Audacity Media Lab, which provides a framework and toolkit for journalists to produce impact-driven stories that address real-world community problems through a theory-of-change model. The tools and resources were developed by RJI Fellows Nicole Lewis and @lamthuyvo.bsky.social.

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation Inside the Immigration Beat: Reporting truth and protecting communities

Thanks to our panelists, @maritzafelix.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, and to everyone who tuned in to our event on immigration reporting.

🔁 Missed it? Watch the replay here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPPo...

@conectaarizona.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social

Explore the AI Spotlight Series open curriculum, featuring on-demand training modules designed to strengthen AI accountability and reporting.

Learn from coaches @karenhao.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, @glichfield.bsky.social, and @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

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It's been quite a year to be reporting with and for immigrants. Feel free to hit me up with questions in advance.

🔔 Join us for a discussion with immigration journalists about reporting truth and protecting communities, ft. @maritzafelix.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, @joseiswriting.bsky.social, and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social.

🗓️ Dec. 5, 2 pm ET

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I'm so so proud to have worked on the reporter track with @karenhao.bsky.social and @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social, two intrepid reporters who are also just incredibly caring humans. Please enjoy and let us know if there are other topics you want covered!

AI Spotlight Series | Reporting on AI Intensive | December 8-10, 2025 | The Workshop is geared towards journalists based in the North America, South America, Africa, and Europe timezones | Instructors: Lam Thuy Vo and Gabriel Geiger | Apply by Nov. 27

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Announcing the Public Release | AI Spotlight Series | a comprehensive open curriculum designed to support journalists around the world in reporting on artificial intelligence with nuance and impact

Today at #GIJC25, we are launching the AI Spotlight Series open curriculum!

Explore on-demand training modules designed to strengthen AI accountability reporting.

Learn with @karenhao.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, @glichfield.bsky.social, @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.
👉 bit.ly/AISpotSosc

🔔 Join us for a discussion with immigration journalists about reporting truth and protecting communities, ft. @maritzafelix.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, @joseiswriting.bsky.social, and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social.

🗓️ Dec. 5, 2 pm ET

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RJI Fellows Nicole Lewis and @lamthuyvo.bsky.social are developing a theory of change for journalists and they want to hear from you. rjionline.org/news/why-jou...

Registration — #AAJA25

Hi 👋! I’ll be speaking at the #AAJA25 convention in Seattle, WA! Holler if you'll be there and lets grab some pho 🍲

A Vietnamese pop icon made an ad for supplements. Then imposters stole the footage to market a fake product. Documented spoke to the Vietnamese popstar Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên to find out how scammers misappropriated her image to market their products.

When Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên agreed to do a commercial for a supplement called Joint Bonus that helps people with joint aches, she didn’t think much of it. Then imposters stole the footage to market a fake product. By @lamthuyvo.bsky.social for @documentedny.bsky.social
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Lam Thuy Vo speaking to a classroom of staff and students.

Lam Thuy Vo speaking to a classroom of staff and students.

Lam Thuy Vo speaking to a classroom of staff and students.

Last week we welcomed AAJA-Innovator Award winner @lamthuyvo.bsky.social to campus. She spoke with our students about how to effectively report on AI as well as create reporting practices for building communities around service-oriented journalism.

Excellent panel on effective approaches to impact #ijf25 @journalismfestival.com

@lamthuyvo.bsky.social of Documented says their main audience is immigrant communities in NYC. They do "listening"/needs assessments, service journalism alongside investigations, even printing materials to distribute

Are you about to travel? Are you worried about your social media history? Or otherwise wondering how to secure your devices? Lock down your data with this guide!

Featuring advice from @eff.org @legalaidnyc.bsky.social and immigration lawyer Ginny Nunez.
documentedny.com/2025/03/31/d...

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

NEW: This one is a doozy—@wired.com's deep dive into the first six weeks of DOGE razing the US government. WIRED spoke with more than 150 sources across more than 20 agencies to get this story. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Last but not least this is a model we've been able to apply to many other immigrant communities. Below are some tip sheets that is informed by this reporting.

They will be passed out via a zine across the U.S. and about 1K of them will reach Boston-area AAPI communities.

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This investigation was is part of community-based journalism around misinformation. I've long been told by editors that stories like these are too niche. Yet to every Vietnamese person I spoke to had seen these ads. This is for them.

Two other collaborators and I have been teaching workshops around misinformation to Vietnamese folks (60+ across the country). Culturally relevant examples like these are crucial to explaining how misinformation is relevant to immigrant communities. It's hard to relate to this in abstract.

YouTube has taken down all accounts associated with the supplements that we sent them for review. And Vietnamese folks have been sharing the story, including one doctor who said she has been told by various patients that they thought the supplements can cure diabetes.

The story came to me from the Vietnamese community. Thanks to @vietfactcheck.org and Viet Bao, it's also accessible in Vietnamese.

It's currently available in print for $0.25 at Vietnamese stores in California and online.

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vietfactcheck.org/2025/02/27/n...

We identified more than 50 YouTube channels hosting ads for the supplements, several websites that claimed false affiliations with hospitals and featured made up doctors.

Below is one website featuring a stock image of a doctor, claiming he was a real doctor.

Popstars and Fake Doctors: This is the Medical Misinformation Thriving on YouTube  - Documented Vietnamese elders lose thousands of dollars to overpriced and useless supplements sold on social media. Documented looked at the methods online sellers use to lure them in.

Many immigrant kids told me they worried about the content that targets their parents.

For @documentedny.bsky.social and @vietfactcheck.org, I looked into one scheme that sells questionable supplements to Vietnamese folks using fake websites and videos of pop stars:
documentedny.com/2025/02/27/p...

Our tipsheet on identifying misinformation on the internet has been translated into Haitian Creole, Spanish, Chinese, Bangla, Khmer and Vietnamese!

See below for translated tipsheets, created by our @lamthuyvo.bsky.social.

Over the past year, we’ve been covering how misinformation spreads to migrants on TikTok, and what people can do to better spot and combat false and misleading info when they see it.

Here’s some of the stories we’ve covered (🧵1/9):

Misinformation on TikTok: How Documented Examined Hundreds of Videos in Different Languages For an investigation into misinformation on TikTok, the Documented team developed helpful methodologies for using AI to transcribe and analyze large amounts of downloaded videos.

Today's story at @gijn.org: a how-to explainer on a Documented investigation into the spread of TikTok misinformation among the immigrant community in New York. @lamthuyvo.bsky.social details how her team compiled, translated, and analyzed hundreds of videos from the social media platform.

I've long wanted to make it easier for folks to examine mis- and disinformation, especially in other languages. We're open sourcing our code for an investigation we did into migrant influencers: documentedny.com/2025/01/07/t...

cc @benwelsh.bsky.social, one of the OG open sourcers!

Migrants told Documented that they rely heavily on TikTok to navigate immigration issues. We took a look at some of the most popular accounts.

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$2 Million Gift to Documented to Train US Newsrooms in Community Journalism - Documented A new initiative supported by the Knight Foundation will enable Documented to build national capacity at a critical moment.

Excited for this @documentedny.bsky.social news! documentedny.com/2024/12/17/d...