Public Speaking – brandon-silverman

These days, I speak frequently talk publicly about social media & democracy, as well as the role of transparency in helping build a better internet. My commentary has appeared in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, NBC Nightly News, Wired, Fast Company and more. Some of my more recent appearances include:

New Papers:

Brandon Silverman & Naomi Shiffman for George Washington’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics: “The Case For Transparency”, a look at 23 case studies of data access to leading to real-world impact

Recent Interviews:

Politico Europe’s Digital Bridge, “How to Best Use US-EU Ties to Make Digital Rulemaking”
Platformer: How CrowdTangle predicted the future
Fast Company, “CrowdTangle’s former CEO has questions about Meta’s decision to close the research tool in an election year”
Wired, “Meta Kills Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time”
NBC Nightly News & Andrea Mitchell Reports, “How Dangerous is TikTok?”
Swarthmore Bulletin, “Moments of Truth”
Politico Europe, “An Interview with Brandon Silverman”
The Economist, “The war in Ukraine isn’t the first social war but it’s the most viral”
An Interview with Morganbladet, Norway’s Largest Newspaper, “Opening Up Platforms to More Research”
Casey Newton’s Platform, “Everything platforms know about the war in Ukraine but won’t tell us”
The Verge, “Platforms May Finally Have To Start Sharing Data
New York Times, “Former Facebook Executive Pushes to Open Up Social Media’s Black Boxes

Government Testimony:

U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, “Hearing On Platform Transparency” (2022)
Australian Parliament, Select Committee on Social Media and Online Safety (2022)

Speaking Events & Lectures:

Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, “The Future of Social Media Transparency”
Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, A Fireside Chat on “Enabling Accountable Technical Oversight of Generative AI with Brandon Silverman and Julia Angwin”
Speaker at UNESCO Global Conference on Information as a Public Good (February, 2023, Paris), “Transparency Reporting”
Speaker at Knight Foundation’s 2022 Informed, “Conversations on Democracy in a Digital Age” (Miami)
Panelist at Stanford’s 2022 Trust & Safety Conference, “Responsibility in Trust & Safety” (Palo Alto)

Podcasts:

Documentaries/TV Appearances:

Mozilla’s “Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency”
NBC Nightly News, “What’s So Dangerous About TikTok”