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Brandon Silverman

Knight Policy Translation Fellow, Co-Founder & CEO CrowdTangle

Brandon Silverman is a policy expert on social media transparency. He was formerly the CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdTangle, a social analytics tool that was acquired by Facebook in 2016 and was one of the primary ways Facebook was transparent about what was happening on its platform. Brandon left in October 2021, in the midst of a debate over how much information the company should make public about its platform. Since then, he has been advising civil society organizations and lawmakers around the world to help design legislation that would require large online platforms to share more data with the outside world. He’s testified in the U.S. Senate & Australian Parliament about transparency regulation, speaks frequently at conferences & events and his writing & commentary has appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, CNN and more. He lives in Oakland with his wife and three young kids.

The Latest From Brandon Silverman

Better Access: Data for the Common Good

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Better Access: Data for the Common Good

Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard. As critical conversations unfold publicly on digital platforms, the ability to study them at scale has steadily diminished. KGI’s latest report authored by a distinguished group of leaders from research, civil society, and journalism offers a roadmap for expanding access to high-influence public platform data – the narrow slice of public platform data that has the greatest impact on civic life due to its reach, source, or role in shaping what people see online.

Alex Abdo, Angie Drobnic Holan, Brandon Silverman, Cameron Hickey, Daniel Arnaudo, Jeremy Merrill, Jo Lukito, Justin Hendrix, Kaitlyn Dowling, Laura Edelson, Leticia Bode, LK Seiling, Mark Scott, Nadine Farid Johnson, Naomi Shiffman, Nathaniel Persily, Peter Chapman, Rachelle Faust, Rebekah Tromble, Tiago Ventura

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