EiM People Directory
Everyone profiled in Everything in Moderation's Week in Review, in one searchable directory.
Each week, I pick one person who's impacting the future of online safety and moderation. Over the years I've highlighted T&S workers, researchers, platform executives, regulators, frontline moderators and journalists. This is the full list in one place, with a link back to the edition they appeared in. — Ben
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Former global lead of X/Twitter's threat disruption team, laid off amid mass cuts and now pursuing a defamation claim against Elon Musk.
TikTok creator (@tofology) with over 200,000 followers who pushed the platform to explain its content moderation decisions.
Founder and CEO, one of six campaigners behind the Who Writes The Rules campaign calling for diversity in EU platform policymaking.
Managing director of Facebook India, who denied the platform showed political bias in its content enforcement decisions.
New CEO of the Integrity Institute, previously Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Principal researcher for Trust & Safety at Roblox, who led a large study on how suspension length affects user reoffending.
Director of Poynter's MediaWise digital media literacy programme, researching Community Notes-style crowdsourced moderation.
Former footballer and TV presenter who has spoken about receiving misogyny and death threats online while working as a football pundit.
George Mason University assistant professor whose book The Digital Closet examines how the internet is policed around heteronormative norms.
Brazil's top court justice, who has led direct legal challenges against Elon Musk's X and Telegram over content moderation and disinformation.
Former principal on Google's Trust & Safety Intel team and founding director of the International Fact-Checking Network, now heading Cornell's new Security, Trust and Safety Initiative.
Associate professor of communication at the University of North Carolina, who developed the morally motivated networked harassment model.
Professor and journalist behind 'Hello Strangers', a data project examining conversations between strangers using the CANDOR corpus.
UN under-secretary-general and special envoy for digital and emerging technologies, who coordinated the UN's 'Digital Cooperation Day' on AI governance.
OnlyFans CEO since December 2021, questioned in a newspaper interview about the platform's content moderation and safety practices.
Instagram creator and organiser of the 'Instarrection' protest demanding greater transparency and fairness in Meta's content moderation system.
FTC chairman building a consumer-protection case against YouTube over the gap between its published policies and actual enforcement.
Wikimedian at large at the Smithsonian Institution who helped subdue an attacker at a Wikipedia editors' conference in New York.
Engineering program manager on YouTube's Trust & Safety team, working on content provenance and moderator tooling.
Co-creator of MEE6, the Discord community moderation bot used by more than 22 million servers worldwide.
Former head of Facebook India's public policy, who resigned amid controversy over alleged preferential treatment of India's ruling party.
Co-lead of non-profit HateAid, providing legal support and advocacy to victims of sexist attacks, revenge porn and doxxing.
Facebook's Global Head of Safety, who testified before the US Senate Commerce Committee about Instagram's effects on teenagers.
Former West Ham United and Queens Park Rangers footballer who spoke to MPs about the mental health impact of online abuse and platform business models.
UN Secretary-General who announced a voluntary UN Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms.
Co-founder of Indian micro-messaging app Koo, recognised on Rest of World's inaugural 100 global tech changemakers list for his moderation approach.
Trust and safety veteran with 15 years at Google, including leading APAC Trust and Safety, and time at ByteDance.
Former Meta engineer who testified before Congress about the harms his daughter faced on Instagram and advocates for trust and safety workers.
Digital safety and gender equality expert and activist, co-campaigner behind the Who Writes The Rules initiative.
Founder of the 5Rights Foundation and member of the UK's Online Safety Bill joint committee, campaigning for children's online safety.
Head of trust and safety and support at Stack Overflow, writing publicly about the limits of AI in moderating novel harms.
Reddit's Chief Legal Officer since 2019, central to defending and evolving the platform's volunteer-driven community moderation model.
Tech analyst and part-time venture partner who regularly addresses content moderation in his annual trends presentations.
Microsoft co-founder who wrote a lengthy essay on AI risks and labour displacement, marking a more cautious shift in his views.
Pinterest CEO advocating for operating-system-level age verification to protect children online, formerly Google's President of Commerce and Payments.
Canadian medic volunteering with Ukrainian forces, whose wartime dispatches exposed inconsistencies in platform moderation guidelines.
Venture capitalist and deepfake survivor who founded Alecto AI to help victims remove nonconsensual explicit content, and advocates for US takedown legislation.
Federal Communications Commission chair under Trump's second term, an outspoken critic of Big Tech's alleged 'censorship cartel' and co-author of Project 2025's tech chapter.
Co-creator of MEE6, the Discord community moderation bot used by more than 22 million servers worldwide.
Worked on the Hamilton 68 disinformation-tracking tool and writes for Columbia Journalism Review on the politicisation of content moderation research.
Former longtime Facebook VP who resigned in 2020 and later testified to the US Senate calling for more platform data transparency.
Former Meta engineering manager who led VR/mixed reality prototypes and has since spoken out about burnout and child safety concerns in XR.
New CEO of Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute and former Biden White House Deputy Chief of Staff for AI strategy.
Columbia University researcher and Senior Director for Trust and Safety at Niantic Labs, appointed to France's new information taskforce.
TikTok content moderation contractor for Telus International who sued over psychological harm from viewing graphic violent content without safeguards.
Online moderation researcher and activist, co-campaigner behind the Who Writes The Rules initiative on diversity in platform policymaking.
The Verge reporter turned Substack writer at Platformer, known for breaking stories on outsourced content moderation and moderator trauma.
A victim of Simon Leviev's Tinder Swindler romance scam who has since become a public advocate for digital fraud prevention.
Content moderator for Telus International, suspended by his employer after addressing the German parliament about working conditions.
OpenAI's only dedicated ethicist, who departed after a year in the role having previously built AI ethics programmes at Meta.
Co-founder of Substack, defending the platform's moderation approach amid criticism over anti-vaccine newsletter monetisation.
Founder of moderation company TwoHat who resigned from Microsoft, which had acquired the company, to pursue new online-safety-related ventures.
Former Reddit community manager (known as Kethryvis), interviewed about moderating r/hockey, the API protests and supporting volunteer moderators.
Executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, known for sharp commentary on platform speech and moderation issues.
Co-founder of law firm Foxglove, which supports former Facebook moderators and advocates for tech-worker unionisation.
Author, journalist and former EFF director who popularised the term 'enshittification' and argues for antitrust action against Big Tech.
San Diego lawyer representing conservative YouTubers who claim the platform violated their rights by removing their content.
Black Twitch streamer who shared video of a racist 'hate raid' targeting his channel, sparking wider response from the streaming community.
UK MP for Folkestone and Hythe who chaired the joint committee on the draft Online Safety Bill and founded fact-checking service Infotagion.
Incoming director of the Meta-funded Oversight Board, formerly CEO of Transparency International and a UN advisor.
Film director of 'Faces of Death', a horror remake exploring content moderation and censorship as political and human processes.
Legal scholar and author researching cyberstalking and platform responsibility, whose book The Fight for Privacy examines Section 230.
Dutch entrepreneur and PhD student who won legal cases against X/Twitter over shadow-banning and GDPR data requests under the Digital Services Act.
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, discussing efforts to make its Claude AI model 'helpful, honest and harmless' using Constitutional AI.
Self-described internet artist and researcher who has built decentralised social platform tools and a guide to running moderated custom servers.
Head of Trust and Safety at OpenAI, interviewed on the Integrity Institute's Trust in Tech podcast about GPT-4's safety work.
National legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing in the New York Review for stronger antitrust action against big platforms.
Former member of Facebook's civic integrity team who warned in a Guardian op-ed that trust and safety teams need time to counter LLM-driven abuse.
Founding advisor on TikTok's content advisory council who wrote about the value of introducing 'friction' to reduce harmful online behaviour.
Former US House Select Committee investigative analyst turned consultant, who wrote about America's failure to counter disinformation after the 2024 election.
General Counsel at the Federalist Society whose YouTube video was taken down and restored, illustrating content moderation controversies.
First member of Anthropic's societal impacts team, working across the company to identify AI risks and scrutinise model behaviour.
New_Public co-author who helped develop a new social media taxonomy aimed at making complex platform-governance topics easier to discuss.
Communications strategist who worked at Meta and SpaceX, reporting to Musk and Zuckerberg, now vocal about Big Tech accountability.
US President who threatened to veto a defence spending bill unless Section 230, the law shielding online platforms, was repealed.
Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, writing on press freedom and platform accountability.
Chartered psychologist appointed Telus International's Global Director of Workplace Wellbeing to support moderator mental health.
Former journalist and researcher at Utrecht University who advocates for platform funding models beyond advertising and for decentralised community moderation.
Leads the Data Workers' Inquiry, a research project empowering data labellers and content moderators to study their own labour conditions.
CEO of FrauenLoop, co-campaigner behind the Who Writes The Rules initiative on diversity in platform policymaking.
UCLA professor and long-running commercial content moderation researcher, named to the 2023 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list.
Prominent TikTok news creator with 18m followers who investigated the platform's opaque content moderation and takedown practices.
New_Public co-author who helped develop a new social media taxonomy aimed at making complex platform-governance topics easier to discuss.
Open-source intelligence investigator at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue researching Chinese 'spamouflage' disinformation campaigns targeting US politics.
Lawyer and digital parenting expert who advises on practical, realistic approaches to children's online safety.
Twitter's head of trust and safety under Elon Musk, previously working on cyberattack prevention and marketplace abuse at Twilio and Amazon.
Former Reddit CEO who banned revenge porn subreddits and later criticised the platform for not banning r/The_Donald sooner.
Editor-at-large of Don't Delete Art, a project documenting how content moderation suppresses artists and marginalised voices online.
Teenage volunteer moderator of the Reddit forum r/SGExams, one of Singapore's busiest academic subreddits, profiled for her moderation work.
Twitch's CEO, who responded to criticism of the platform's handling of the Buffalo shooting hate crime.
Academic who, backed by the Knight First Amendment Institute, is suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg using a novel interpretation of Section 230.
Teleperformance's global VP for trust and safety policy and former lead of the WEF's Global Coalition for Digital Safety.
Trust & safety professional with a career spanning YouTube, Stripe and TikTok, speaking candidly about working in Big Tech.
Former Facebook employee turned whistleblower whose 60 Minutes interview and Senate testimony exposed the company's internal content decision-making.
Co-author of an American Prospect essay arguing that Mark Zuckerberg's unilateral power at Meta shows the need to break up the company.
Founder of non-profit Project Liberty, who launched a bid to buy and rebuild TikTok around decentralised, user-controlled internet infrastructure.
Venture capitalist and Twitter's first investor who publicly argued that one company controlling Twitter's moderation policy was 'not ideal'.
Iraqi former TikTok content moderator via Telus International who spoke publicly about reviewing Israel/Palestine conflict content.
Artist behind the Real World Harm project, which uses interviews with former content moderators to document their trauma.
EU senior envoy for digital to the US, who led efforts to prepare Silicon Valley for the Digital Services Act.
Malaysia's Digital Minister, who spoke on the country's push for a Digital Trust and Safety Commission and stronger platform regulation.
Co-founder of Substack, defending the platform's moderation approach amid criticism over anti-vaccine newsletter monetisation.
Dutch novelist whose book 'We Had To Remove This Post' dramatises the experience of a content moderation quality assurance worker.
Financial Times tech correspondent praised for her careful reporting on Facebook's Oversight Board and platform speech issues.
Professional footballer who spoke out publicly after receiving racist abuse via Instagram following a match defeat.
Professor and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, co-leading a Lancet Commission on misinformation.
Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute and former programme director at the Alan Turing Institute.
Former Danish prime minister and Oversight Board member, discussing Meta's content moderation transparency and the board's recent staff cuts.
Finnish MEP becoming European Commission Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, overseeing DSA and DMA enforcement.
Founder and CEO of Chayn, co-campaigner behind the Who Writes The Rules initiative on platform policymaking diversity.
Former US Secretary of State and First Lady who used a CNN interview to call for repealing Section 230 and prioritising social media safety laws.
Public policy expert and founder of consulting firm Earthseed who blew the whistle on Pinterest and authored the Tech Worker Handbook on whistleblowing.
Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, who defended the organisation after Elon Musk publicly attacked it.
Facebook content moderator employed via Covalen who became the first working moderator to testify to a government body, before the Irish Parliament.
Leads the Citizen and Technology Lab at Cornell, researching digital governance and co-founding a non-profit advocating for platform data access.
CEO of Patreon, who discussed content policy as a platform differentiator and Apple's control over the creator payments stack.
AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic who went viral warning that AI models could pose existential risk within a decade.
Snap's newly hired Global Head of Platform Safety, previously Microsoft's Chief Online Safety Officer for 21 years and a GIFCT representative.
Co-founder of Substack, defending the platform's moderation approach amid criticism over anti-vaccine newsletter monetisation.
Computer scientist who coined the term 'virtual reality' and writes essays and books on the internet, social media and Section 230 reform.
Founder and CEO of Discord, who testified before Congress and describes the platform's approach to teen safety and public-space moderation.
Co-founder of the Integrity Institute, a community of trust and safety professionals working to make social media safer.
Runs the Trust and Safety Network and was promoted to become Hinge's first Chief Risk Officer after serving as its VP of Trust and Safety.
Tech investor with stakes in Parler, Gab and BitChute, who committed funding to build moderation tools at BitChute.
Art teacher and Instagram activist whose anti-racist art and activism reportedly saw reduced reach, raising platform transparency concerns.
Lead practitioner at Safer Lives, a UK agency working with sex offenders, quoted on the complexities behind online child abuse offences.
Welsh broadcaster, author and documentary maker pursuing a civil claim against xAI after Grok was used to create a sexualised deepfake of her.
US journalist and host of the podcast 'Blocked and Reported', at the centre of a Bluesky moderation controversy over calls for him to be banned.
Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of Silicon Values, a leading voice on moderation's impact on free speech.
Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee, who published a report alleging collusion between big tech and the Biden administration to censor speech.
Co-founder of xAI and leader of its research, safety and enterprise efforts, reported to be leaving the company.
Wikipedia founder who discussed how the encyclopedia's mission shapes its approach to content and behavioural rules.
Former head of Facebook's Applied Machine Learning team, who built the FBLearner Flow platform underpinning the company's use of AI, including for moderation.
US President who wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for bipartisan tech regulation on privacy, competition and children's safety.
Facebook's global head of public policy, described as the company's 'chief fixer' for his political influence over moderation decisions.
Parler co-founder who was fired as CEO following board disagreements over the network's speech policy.
Author of 'A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace', an influential early text on internet governance and free speech; died in 2018.
VP of Trust and Safety at Discord and co-founder of Sentropy, who announced tightened child-safety policies at TrustCon.
Former Wall Street Journal editor now leading media partnerships at X, defending the platform's Community Notes approach.
Associate professor of media innovation at Northeastern University and author of 'Governing Babel', on the future of platform speech governance.
Author of 'The Anxious Generation' and researcher linking smartphones and social media use to declining teen mental health.
Musician and filmmaker who directed a documentary on sextortion, having set up a honeytrap to investigate scammers operating out of Nigeria.
Co-lead of non-profit HateAid, providing legal support and advocacy to victims of sexist attacks, revenge porn and doxxing.
Founder and managing director of the Violence Prevention Network, working on deradicalisation and online extremism since 2004.
Australia's eSafety Commissioner, the world's first online safety regulator, previously worked at Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe.
Newly hired Global Head of Community Policy and Partnerships at Airbnb, previously at Google.
The plaintiff behind the landmark K.G.M. v. Meta case over addictive platform design, who spoke publicly about her experience for the first time.
Facebook's head of health, who reportedly pushed the company to clamp down on anti-vaccine misinformation.
US journalist, author and podcast host who criticised US reluctance to regulate online speech and the use of the First Amendment to excuse platform behaviour.
Interim Executive Director of the Integrity Institute, brought in from a healthcare non-profit background to guide the organisation through a leadership transition.
Stanford University fellow and co-founder of the Data Nutrition Project working on tools for responsible AI development; previously at Google, McKinsey and the US Digital Service.
Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, leading a new task force on trustworthy digital ecosystems.
St John's law professor who reported extensively on the creation of Facebook's Oversight Board.
Founder of Anchor Change and former Facebook public policy director, who interviewed Bluesky's head of Trust & Safety about its growth.
Playwright whose play The Moderate dramatises the experience of a content moderator reviewing thousands of videos a day.
Constitutional law professor at NYU and new Meta Oversight Board member, whose work focuses on expression and equality rights.
Google's President of Global Affairs, who positioned the company as a stabilising force on AI and digital sovereignty at the Munich Security Conference.
US playwright who wrote 'Moderation', a play following two trust & safety workers grappling with their job's boundaries.
VP of Trust and Safety at Sift with over 15 years' experience across Google, Square and Facebook in risk and spam prevention.
Microsoft's former Architect of Identity, whose paper 'The Laws of Identity' argued the web needed a way to verify who users are.
Celebrity who froze her social media accounts as part of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign against platform inaction on hate speech.
Nigeria's minister of Information and Culture, a key figure in the country's suspension of Twitter.
Assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, lead author of research measuring how content moderation 'prevents dissemination' of harmful posts.
Young Irish man who signed up for a content moderation role and says he was redirected into posing as a persona to engage users on dating platforms.
Actor who plays a content moderator in the film 'American Sweatshop', discussed how she approached researching the role.
Former Goldman Sachs analyst and software developer banned from Facebook after creating the Unfollow Everything browser extension.
Research scientist at the University of Southern California building a simulator to model the effects of content moderation and misinformation on social networks.
Former TikTok moderator and whistleblower who publicly alleged bullying, harassment and union-busting at the company.
Researcher at the University of Washington who co-authored a study on how moderators prioritise which misinformation posts to remove.
Former TikTok policy manager for EMEA who wrote publicly on Substack about the realities of writing global platform policy.
US Congresswoman whose government Twitter account was suspended for breaching rules on violent speech.
Politico journalist known for well-sourced reporting on European Commission tech policy, joining the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.
CEO of privacy-focused social network MeWe, who defended the platform's moderation approach after a surge of new users.
Founder and executive director of Repro Uncensored, a non-profit tracking suppression of abortion, queer and feminist speech online.
YouTube's VP of Trust & Safety, who explained the platform's refined policy against AI-generated 'content farming'.
Former Meta civic integrity researcher turned independent scholar who writes the newsletter Unmoderated Insights on social media harms.
Automattic co-founder and CEO of Tumblr's parent company, who wrote publicly about the difficulty of Tumblr's content moderation approach.
Online safety professional at Spectrum Labs and founder of The Net Safety Collaborative, profiled for his career path into trust and safety.
MIT physicist and founder of the Future of Life Institute, calling for AI companies to quantify the existential risk posed by their models.
Former Reddit trust and safety staffer suing the company after it allegedly ignored requests to move her from violent-content exposure.
Social scientist and doctoral candidate at Michigan State University who built the Trust and Safety Foundation's History of Trust and Safety Archive.
Duchess of Sussex who spoke on an SXSW panel criticising social media platforms for failing to address online hatred toward women.
Chief executive of Ofcom, the UK regulator overseeing the incoming Online Safety Bill, who spoke about platforms prioritising growth over safety.
Former senior Twitter data scientist who worked on algorithms to monitor harmful political content before being laid off.
Lawyer at Nzili and Sumbi Advocates leading the legal action against Meta and Sama over Kenyan content moderators' working conditions.
Chairman of UK regulator Ofcom, who called for tech firms to prioritise trust and safety alongside profit.
Director of horror film 'Deleter', about a content moderator in the Philippines, discussing the film's themes with Variety.
Works at New_Public, a nonprofit focused on healthier digital public spaces, raising questions about online-to-offline social connections.
UK TikTok creator known for prank videos, whose harassment content highlighted the limits of AI-based content moderation systems.
Facebook's Head of Global Policy Management and former US Assistant Attorney, central to the company's content policy decisions including Trump's ban.
Former OpenAI content moderator via Sama in Kenya who co-founded the African Content Moderators Union and Techworker Community Africa.
Researcher at the University of Zurich who co-authored a study on how moderators prioritise which misinformation posts to remove.
Sierra Leonean teacher trafficked to a Southeast Asian scam compound under false pretences, whose story exposed the human cost of online scam operations.
Head of Trust and Safety at Airbnb, credited with cutting unauthorised parties by building safety tools and a 24/7 safety line.
Tech worker activist who discusses on the Trust in Tech podcast the ethical dilemmas facing trust and safety professionals, drawing on her time at Meta.
YouTube's chief product officer, in charge of Trust and Safety, who has been publicly addressing the platform's approach to misinformation.
YouTube executive who testified before the US Homeland Security Committee alongside Meta, TikTok and Twitter counterparts on trust and safety.
Meta policy executive included alongside Koo co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna on Rest of World's 100 global tech changemakers list.
Singer who spoke out against the UK's Online Safety Bill based on her own experience of online abuse.
Former Google deputy general counsel known as 'The Decider' for content takedown calls, later Twitter's legal director and US deputy CTO.
Pakistani internet activist and lawyer who founded the Digital Rights Foundation and was a founding member of Meta's Oversight Board.
Co-author of an American Prospect essay arguing that Mark Zuckerberg's unilateral power at Meta shows the need to break up the company.
Wrote about being sexually harassed in Meta's Horizon Venture metaverse platform and works on efforts to address such safety problems.
Journalist, researcher and Mozilla fellow whose reporting has documented Kenyan disinformation-for-hire and TikTok Lite's weaker safety protections.
Google product manager and former Meta data-portability and business-integrity staffer, who writes the Full Stack Humanist newsletter on moderation.
Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law, researching platform governance and shareholder power.
Worked with the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to take down websites creating deepfake non-consensual intimate imagery.
Australia's communications minister, who said platforms have the right to enforce their own terms as private companies.
Law professor and author of 'The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms', arguing for democratic governance of social media platforms.
Bumble's head of public policy for the Americas, who has led legislative efforts against cyberflashing.
Executive Director of Internet Works, an industry body representing small and medium-sized platforms in tech policy debates.
Wrote a 42,000-word encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, presenting a moral argument for responsible AI and digital regulation.
Head of the European Commission's Digital Services and Platforms unit, a lead architect of the Digital Services Act.
Through their Archewell Foundation, launched The Parents Network, a support community for parents navigating children's online safety.
Founding Director of Operations at the Integrity Institute, stepping down after growing its membership past 300 and raising $3 million in funding.
Volunteer moderator of the Reddit forum r/SGExams, one of Singapore's busiest academic subreddits, profiled for his moderation work.
Journalist who founded Hindutva Watch, a research initiative documenting crimes against Muslims in India, despite facing death threats and harassment.
WebPurify content moderator contracted to Meta's Horizon Worlds, who polices virtual-reality spaces for policy violations.
Independent AI policy researcher, co-campaigner behind the Who Writes The Rules initiative on platform policymaking diversity.
Black Twitch streamer who started the #TwitchDoBetter campaign after being targeted by hate raids.
British teenager groomed online into extremist views by a neo-Nazi she met on the internet, whose case highlighted safeguarding and radicalisation failures before her death in 2022.
Wikimedian in residence at CUNY and a Wikipedia conference organiser, who helped subdue an attacker at a Wikipedia editors' event.
Co-founder of Techworker Community Africa and a petitioner, alongside Mophat Okinyi, calling for investigation into exploitative AI content moderation conditions.
Former England and Leeds United defender who testified to a UK parliamentary select committee about racist online abuse he and his family received.
California's attorney general, who served OpenAI an investigative subpoena over the safety and security risks posed by its AI models.
Professional footballer who spoke out publicly after receiving racist abuse via Instagram following a match defeat.
Security researcher who persuaded a DDoS protection provider to drop QAnon- and 8chan-related domains, highlighting infrastructure's role in moderation.
Latinx trans TikTok creator (@rosalynnemontoya) who campaigned for clearer content moderation decisions on the platform.
New York-based technologist who created Blacksky, a custom moderated feed for Black users on the AT Protocol, now a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.
British comedian who criticised the UK's Online Safety Bill online, amid allegations of sexual assault and abuse which he denies.
Former Florida local official targeted with AI-generated nude deepfakes by trolls after proposing to rename a road, who became an advocate for anti-deepfake legislation.
Comedian and author who publicly urged Facebook to hire more human moderators and fact-checkers.
Researcher who co-launched the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power with Sarah T Roberts, named on the same women-in-AI-ethics list.
Co-founder of the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit bringing together current and former integrity/trust and safety workers.
New President and CEO of the Internet Society, succeeding Andrew Sullivan, focused on connecting the offline population and defending internet openness.
OpenAI founder and CEO whose leadership and credibility were scrutinised in a New Yorker profile amid safety and trust debates.
Artist behind the Real World Harm project, which uses interviews with former content moderators to document their trauma.
Research director at Cornell's Citizens and Technology Lab, who wrote about the risks of Meta building a Community Notes-style fact-checking feature.
President and CEO of GLAAD since 2014, whose foreword to its Social Media Safety Index criticised Meta's LGBTQ policy backsliding.
U.S. undersecretary of State for public diplomacy overseeing the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a prominent critic of the EU's DSA and UK's Online Safety Act.
Former Meta director of global public policy and author of the memoir 'Careless People', which alleges misconduct at the company.
Microsoft CEO who publicly called for social media reform and greater focus on internet safety.
Former Google/YouTube trust and safety lead on elections and misinformation, named among the first ten hires of the US DHS's AI Corps.
Founder of UK anti-online-abuse non-profit Glitch, appointed to Twitter's Trust and Safety Council.
Documentary filmmaker whose film TikTok Boom examines the platform's algorithm, mental health impacts and moderation-relevant data practices.
Research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory who co-edits the Journal of Online Trust and Safety and launched a trust and safety teaching consortium.
TikTok CEO who defended the company's tens of thousands of content moderation staff at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
Former president of global affairs at Meta and former UK deputy prime minister, promoting a new book on saving the internet from Big Tech.
Former Facebook content moderator who wrote publicly about the psychological toll of the job and is now involved with African Tech Workers Rising.
Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower who exposed the company's failure to combat political manipulation and abuse by governments.
Technologist and writer whose newsletter 'spencer's paradoxes' explores how computing and the internet could better connect people.
BBC Radio Ulster presenter who won damages for online defamation via an anonymous account.
Former head of product safety at OpenAI who wrote a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of downplaying safety issues.
Columbia University professor and author of 'Safe Havens for Hate', researching how extremist groups exploit uneven platform moderation.
Former footballer who quit social media over online abuse and called for platforms to be regulated more forcefully.
President and co-founder of the Oasis Consortium, a trust-and-safety focused think tank, and former Chief Strategy Officer at Spectrum Labs.
Leads the Premier League's unit that tracks down fans who abuse footballers online, working with platforms to identify offenders.
Deep learning researcher at OpenAI responsible for its safety systems, who discussed model release processes and red-teaming GPT-4.
Professional footballer who spoke out publicly after receiving racist abuse via Instagram, calling for those responsible to be punished.
Yale Justice Collaboratory researcher who co-developed a new taxonomy for classifying and discussing social media platforms.
Full-time CEO of Bluesky and founding CEO of Automattic, discussing how content moderation scales as the platform grows.
New general counsel of Change.org, previously deputy general counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation.
CEO of Medium, who downplayed concerns about a reported rise in AI-generated content on the platform, citing the role of human editors and moderation.
Yale Justice Collaboratory researcher who co-developed a new taxonomy for classifying and discussing social media platforms.
Former Head of Global Women's Safety at Uber and VP of Safety & Social Advocacy at Match Group, now a safety consultant.
Software engineer, activist and founder of anti-harassment startup Block Party, profiled for her work addressing structural platform abuse.
German-born director known for The Wire and Stranger Things, whose latest project 'American Sweatshop' dramatises the life of a content moderator.
CEO of AI voice-cloning company Synthesia, discussing content moderation rules and the risks of generative AI misuse.
Twitter's legal, policy and trust lead, targeted with sexist and racist abuse after Elon Musk criticised her moderation work.
Researcher whose Sapienza University study of half a billion online comments over 30 years found toxic discourse patterns predate the modern internet.
Professional footballer who spoke out publicly after receiving racist abuse via Instagram following a match defeat.
Musician (formerly Kanye West) whose purchase of the platform Parler raised questions about its future content moderation approach.
Former Twitter head of trust and safety, now at Match Group, who has also called for age verification to be handled at the device level.
Georgetown University student who ran a TikTok campaign urging the platform to release its full content moderation guidelines.
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