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.
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
