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Ross Frenett

Ross Frenett

Founder & CEO, Moonshot

Eradicate Hate:
2022

Ross Frenett is Founder and CEO of Moonshot, a company working to end online harms using evidence, ethics and human rights. Throughout his career, Ross Frenett has worked to bring technology to bear on the issue of violent extremism. He pioneered an entirely new approach to combating violent extremism – online interventions – and has overseen pilot testing of experimental methodologies to deliver content to vulnerable individuals online. Ross previously served as Director of the Against Violent Extremism (AVE) network, a global network of former extremists, defectors and survivors of violent extremism seeded by Google Ideas. In this role, Ross supervised the setup and expansion of this program, working with hundreds of former extremists across the globe to advance efforts to deradicalize and disengage individuals at-risk of violent extremism. In June 2020, Ross was appointed the co-leader of the Communication & Narratives Working Group of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN).

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The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.

Nick Rasmussen
Nicholas Rasmussen Counterterrorism Coordinator, Department of Homeland Security