Joel Finkelstein

FULL NAME: JOEL FINKELSTEIN
LOCATION: TYLER, TEXAS, USA

Education

Princeton University

Neuroscience Psychology
PhD Psychology

Artificial Intelligence Model

Established The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) | May 2018

Quote from PBS | How these researchers track viral outbreaks of online hate that lead to violence by Ian T. Shearn. |

By 2018, they had created their own computer platform, and had compiled massive amounts of online data generated by extremist groups. They created an artificial intelligence model to dissect and analyze that data. Along the way, they discovered that cryptic code words and memes were an essential tool in the incendiary propagation of spurious conspiracy theories. Their program could identify virtual outbreaks of disinformation in nearly real time, like an epidemiologist tracking a deadly virus.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/2021/03/16/how-these-researchers-track-viral-outbreaks-of-online-hate-that-lead-to-violence/

Investors

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), George Soros's Open Society Foundations and the Charles Koch Foundation.

Collaborators

John Farmer, jr. (Former New Jersey Attorney General, Director of Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics and Rutgers University's Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience, Former lead Counsel for 9/11 Commission.)
General John R. Allen (President of the Brookings Institution, retired 4 star general, former commander of NATO and US Forces in Afghanistan),
Paul Goldenberg (U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council, fellow at Rutgers Miller Center)
Danver Riggleman (Former Republican Representative, Air Force Intelligence Officer, Data Analytics Expert, Virginia, Associate of Rep. Tom Malinoweski (D-7th) to sponsor resolution condeming QAnon).
David Magerman (Renaissance Technologies, former boss who he had a falling out with was Robert Mercer (one of Donald Trump's biggest donors. investments in Breitbard News, Cambridge Analytica.)).
Alex Goldenberg. NCRI's Lead Intelligence Analyst.

Sources:

PBS. How these researchers track viral outbreaks of online hate that lead to violence. Ian T. Shearn. March 16, 2021. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/2021/03/16/how-these-researchers-track-viral-outbreaks-of-online-hate-that-lead-to-violence/