Louis Barclay is a software developer and tech activist who was banned and legally threatened by Meta in 2021 for creating Unfollow Everything, a tool to delete users’ news feeds, leading to a major lawsuit last year. Barclay is also the founder of Nudge, an open source project to give people more control over what they see online. Barclay campaigns for tech platform transparency through projects like RIPCrowdTangle.com, and investigates Big Tech power and the impact of AI on information at his blog 12Challeng.es. While at Shorenstein, Barclay will research how the public consumes viral content across social media in order to better analyze the information mix in our societies.
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