Bogdan is currently the Head of Machine Learning at Vibrant Planet, a climate tech company focused on resource management and forest fire mitigation. Bogdan joined Vibrant Planet after running scie.nz, a small data consultancy, and developing aorist, a data engineering library for machine learning applications.

Bogdan also spent 7 years working on the Facebook Core Data Science team. At Facebook, Bogdan was responsible for the implementation and delivery of several large software systems using advanced machine learning techniques, with scopes ranging from spam detection, business intelligence, data management and high-stakes analytics.

Bogdan holds a PhD in Sociology and M.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University, as well as a B.A. in History and Sociology from Amherst College. He has authored 18 peer-reviewed publications in Computational Social Science, as well as 14 patents and patent applications.

Brandon Silverman is an entrepreneur and advocate for social media transparency. He was the co-founder and CEO of the data analytics tool CrowdTangle, which was acquired by Meta in 2016. He left Meta in October 2021, in the midst of a debate over how much information the company should make public about its platform and since then, he has been working with regulators around the world to design legislation that would require large online platforms to share more data about what's happening on their platforms in real-time. He's also an active advisor and investor in a variety of start-ups focused on social media, local news, civic technology and media. He lives in Oakland with his wife and two kids.

Dylan is a law student at Harvard University where he is a student member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and focuses on the intersection of law, public policy, and internet-powered technologies.

Prior to his graduate studies, Dylan spent time working on the social and technical sides of the Internet. He was a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and held several roles in content policy and operations at Facebook and YouTube focused on mitigating the risks of online hate speech, terrorism, and misinformation.

Dylan received his BA from Johns Hopkins University in International Studies and Political Theory.

Elise is a product lead in Integrity. She worked on Facebook's Civic Integrity team for 2.5 years, and is now leading integrity and privacy at a popular social media startup. On Civic Integrity, she led several efforts spanning integrity for both actor and content level problems.

Prior to working at Facebook, she worked in consulting at the Boston Consulting Group. She also led product and business operations at a financial services startup. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.

Greg Johnson is an expert on the social impacts of technology and has dedicated his career to driving solutions to online integrity risks. He led initiatives to counter disinformation and influence operations at various leading social media platforms and holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Greg is also a Technology & Public Policy fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he advises leaders on the risks and opportunities of emerging Web3 technologies on democracy. Greg is a founding Fellow of the Integrity Institute and a member of the Institute’s Advisory Board.

Hendrick Townley is an engineer at Facebook, where he has worked on teams such as Civic Integrity and Responsible Ranking.

Jen is an expert in global information security threats and the use of intelligence to help keep users safe and secure online. She has spent her career as an analyst and leader, building teams to mitigate online harms across sectors. Most recently, she held leadership roles at Facebook establishing and supporting intelligence and investigative teams to illuminate adversarial and emerging threats, and helping design solutions with cross-functional teams in the product integrity space.

Prior to Facebook, Jen worked at various security companies and incident response firms supporting teams conducting strategic intelligence analysis and helping customers build their cybersecurity resilience. She holds an MA in Public International Law and Security Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a BA from Smith College, and a Fulbright fellowship in Ukraine.

Karan is a J.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago Law School working at the intersection of technology and policy.

Prior to his studies, he worked as a software engineer on Facebook’s Civic Integrity team, where he led efforts to detect and enforce against abusive assets and sensitive entities in the civic space. He also worked on Facebook News, where he developed technologies and strategies to increase user engagement with authoritative content. Karan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego.

Katie Harbath is a global leader at the intersection of elections, democracy, and technology. As the chief executive of Anchor Change, she helps clients think through their civic engagement online. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Previously, Katie spent 10 years at Facebook. As a director of public policy, she built and led global teams that managed elections and helped government and political figures use the social network to connect with their constituents.

Before Facebook, Katie held senior digital roles at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the DCI Group, as well as multiple campaigns for office.

She is a board member at the National Conference on Citizenship, Democracy Works, and the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.

Lauren Boas Hayes is a leader at the intersection of technology, security, and social issues.

During her time at Facebook she worked on the teams which investigate information operations and cyber espionage activity on Facebook's products. Her work focused on civic actor and election protection.

Lauren led cybersecurity for the Biden-Harris Transition Team, cofounded Deloitte's Threat Intelligence & Analytics practice. She is currently a Senior Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

Matt has spent over a decade working on reducing abuse online. He started the anti-abuse engineering team at WhatsApp. He spent five years there building systems and teams that reduce harm for over a billion people, while respecting privacy in the intimate setting of end-to-end encrypted chats. He believes that reducing harm and protecting privacy are important complementary goals, not at odds.

Matt also spent years at Facebook and Stripe building anti-abuse systems, and is currently working on trust & safety at YouTube.

Naomi is the Head of Case Implementation for the Oversight Board, where she leads a team in assessing the impact of Oversight Board policy decisions on Meta's broader content ecosystem. She also serves as an advisor to Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity.

Naomi previously built the academic and research partnerships program at CrowdTangle, a Meta-owned social media analytics product. Naomi created and scaled CrowdTangle's work with researchers to over 600 academic institutions and research organizations, supporting hundreds of publications annually, and providing industry-leading transparency into social media data.

Before her work with CrowdTangle, Naomi was a policy researcher at Mozilla, focused on privacy policy, data protection, AI accountability, and misinformation. She began her career as a community organizer focused on US policy in the Middle East. Naomi has a BA from UC San Diego, and a Master's in Public Policy from UC Berkeley.

Nichole is an integrity program manager who has launched election and misinformation products and policies at some of the largest social media platforms with a focus on operations. In 2019, she was the Elections lead for CrowdTangle, a Meta-owned social listening tool, before joining Meta’s Misinformation Operations team. In 2021, she joined Twitter’s Launch team to focus on civic and misinformation products and policies.

Prior to her integrity work, Nichole worked on news, political, and cultural content programing at Snapchat. She started her career in digital political organizing and working on Capitol Hill. Nichole is a graduate of Arizona State with degrees in Philosophy and Communication.

Nicole is a researcher on integrity and societal health issues in tech. She worked on Facebook's Civic Integrity team for 2 years and Privacy team for 1.5 years. After that, she worked on Twitter’s Civic Integrity team for 1.5 years. She continues to lead user research on trust, safety and integrity issues in tech. Nicole’s research has driven discussions about election risk tiering between countries, evaluating the impact of content moderation through labeling, and understanding preferences and norms around speech from politicians to inform policies. Prior to working in tech, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Democracy Fellow at the US Agency for International Development. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA and BS from Stanford University.

Paul is a tenured professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. From 2012-2020 he was at the University of Iowa College of Law (with courtesy appointments in philosophy and political science). His research is focused on the nexus of normative political theory, constitutional law, and social science, as well as law and technology.

Paul has been a visiting academic consultant to the Facebook Civic Integrity team from 2018-2019, and helped set up the Facebook Oversight Board.

Sagnik is an engineer lead in Integrity. He has worked on Integrity at three tech companies, including 3 years on Facebook's Civic Integrity team. At Facebook, he led efforts to enforce against both abusive actors and content disrupting civic discourse. He is currently working on Trust and Safety at a popular social media startup.

Prior to working in integrity, Sagnik worked at tech companies in both hardware and software. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. He holds 6 patents and has 5 peer-reviewed publications.

Sam Plank is a data scientist working on a healthier internet. He spent 2 years on Facebook’s Civic Integrity team, focused on the platform’s role in countries undergoing conflict. His work revamped ranking algorithms to reduce the spread of harmful content and protect civic discourse.

Sam holds a B.A. in applied math from Harvard University, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Political Review and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the relationship between protest and social media.

Tom Cunningham worked as economist and data scientist at Facebook and Twitter, working on content moderation and company strategy. His work has been extensively quoted in many publications, in the House report on Competition in Digital Markets, and the House report on January 6. Since resigning from Twitter in November 2022 he has been writing about content moderation.