Cassius Wilkinson is the Counter-Extremism Operations Lead at Discord, where he and his team work to detect and disrupt the spread of extremist content, and neutralize the exploitation of the platform by extremist actors. Prior to joining Discord, Wilkinson was a Strategic Risk Analyst at TikTok and drove efforts to identify and remove content from organized crime networks in Latin America. At TikTok, he also managed the global elections risk strategy, working to curtail political misinformation and electoral violence. Wilkinson began his career as a political risk consultant at EMPRA in Mexico City, where he advised multinational and diplomatic clients on security and political risks. In 2018, he helped launch Advanced Intelligence Solutions (AIS), a risk analysis firm dedicated to public security research in Latin America. A native of New York, Wilkinson has a bachelor’s degree in Politics and Latin American Studies from Occidental College in Los Angeles.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
