Ed is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006 he has devoted his professional energies to improving equity, accessibility, and credibility in online environments. Ed has led strategy and project definition on open source software development focused on human-in-the-loop approaches to translating, verifying, investigating and fact-checking digital content, with recent focus on the particularly pressing challenge of enabling journalists, scientists, and community leaders to improve information circulating in closed messaging environments.
Ed is a member of the PAI (Partnership on AI) AI and Media Steering Committee and the Logically Facts Advisory Board. Recent projects include: #FactsFirstPH initiative with Rappler; Confirma 2022 Brazil Election project with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), National Science Foundation Co-Insights, the COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub (Google), and WhatsApp’s global fact-checking program.
