The Splinters of our Discontent: How to Fix Social Media and Democracy Without Breaking Them

Mike Godwin is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's Law and the notion of an Internet meme. He was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, and has been a contributing editor of Reason magazine since 1994. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington DC, and was elected to the Internet Society Board of Trustees in April 2019.

Renee DiResta is Vice President of Business Development at Haven, a marketplace for ocean freight shipping, and a cofounder of the IoT Syndicate on AngelList. She was previously a Principal at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where she spent four years as a VC investing in seed-stage technology startups. Prior to OATV, Renee spent seven years an equity derivatives trader at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm in NYC. For fun, she plays with data sets, helps run The Maker Map open-source project, and is an avid crafter. Renee holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Political Science from the Honors College of SUNY Stony Brook. She lives on the web at http: //noupsi.de and @noupside.