About

Victoire Rio

 

Victoire Rio is the founder and executive director of WHAT TO FIX, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and promoting global internet integrity.

Victoire’s current efforts focus on addressing systemic risks - including risks associated with the rapid uptake of social media ad revenue sharing programs and their impact on the global information ecosystem, and the environment. Read more →
Prior to establishing WHAT TO FIX, Victoire spent close to a decade leading efforts to hold tech companies accountable in Myanmar. She spearheaded advocacy towards Facebook in the lead up to the Rohingya genocide, and co-founded and led the Myanmar Tech Accountability Network (MTAN), coordinating Myanmar’s response and digital risk mitigation in the wake of the genocide, COVID pandemic, Myanmar 2020 elections and the 2021 military coup.
She also played a central role in convening the Next Billion Network, a community of practice bringing together frontline actors from across Asia, Africa, the Balkans, Latin America and the Middle East. She supported a range of community-led documentation and advocacy efforts, and oversaw the first multi-country audit of Facebook’s reporting system.
While her work fueled a range of significant improvements to tech companies’ products, policies, enforcement, and engagement globally, Victoire kept running into walls when seeking to address issues impacting tech companies’ bottom lines.
After years of relying on self-regulation, she registered WHAT TO FIX in the EU in 2024 to explore the use of European regulatory levers to address, and be informed by, insights from the frontlines of digital harms.
 
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