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Matt Motyl

Senior Advisor, University of Southern California's Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making

Matt Motyl is a behavioral data scientist and social psychologist with many years of experience studying communication, politics, and technology and building social technologies that address youth mental health, misinformation, and intergroup violence. He is an award-winning scholar whose work has been cited more than 19,000 times, and his research has been featured in many outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post. Dr. Motyl was previously a senior staff researcher on Meta’s Civic Integrity team in the lead-up to the 2020 US Presidential Election and later in Meta’s Social Responsibility unit working on COVID-19 research shared with the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Since leaving Meta, he became a Senior Advisor to the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making at the University of Southern California. Dr. Motyl received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Virginia.

The Latest From Matt Motyl

Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First

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Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First

As state, federal, and global policymakers grapple with how to address concerns about the link between online algorithms and a variety of harms, KGI’s latest report authored by a distinguished group of researchers, technologists, and policy leaders is a roadmap for design and governance solutions that put users first. Product designers and policymakers can promote better algorithms through detailed design transparency, user choices and defaults, and assessments of long-term impact.

Alex Moehring, Alissa Cooper, Arvind Narayanan, Aviv Ovadya, Elissa Redmiles, Jeff Allen, Jonathan Stray, Julia Kamin, Leif Sigerson, Luke Thorburn, Matt Motyl, Motahhare Eslami, Nadine Farid Johnson, Nathaniel Lubin, Ravi Iyer, Zander Arnao

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