Jonathon Deedman
Online Safety Policy Associate, Ofcom
2025
Jonathon is an Online Safety Policy Associate in Ofcom’s Online Safety Group, operating in their Hate, Terrorism, and Suicide team. Jonathon has studied politics, ideology, counter-terrorism, and the extreme right wing at the University of Exeter, the Australian National University, and Richmond, the American International University in London. Jonathon has been working at the nexus of tech and extremism for the last 4 years, with a particular focus on the contemporary misuse of AI-powered tech and gaming spaces by hateful and terroristic actors.
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.
