Brian Fishman
Co-Founder, Cinder
2021, 2022
Brian Fishman is a co-founder of Cinder, an integrated platform for Trust and Safety. He previously led policy work regarding terrorism and hate organizations at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Fishman served as the director of research at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point; conceived and ran Palantir Technologies’ disaster relief program; worked in-house at New America, a think tank; and worked on Capitol Hill. Fishman authored The Master Plan: ISIS: al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory (Yale University Press, 2016), which was built on a pathbreaking course he taught at West Point in 2008 about the Islamic State’s plan to govern. He maintains affiliations with the Combating Terrorism Center, New America, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the University of California, Berkeley.
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
