To contact Ryan, please email him at ryanhartwig@protonmail.com
BIO
Ryan Hartwig was a content moderator for nearly two years working for Cognizant, subcontracted by Facebook in Phoenix, Arizona. He worked in queues for Latin America and also North America, and reviewed and deleted groups, pages, posts, comments, and videos for Facebook and Instagram.
Since going public in June 2020 with investigative journalists at Project Veritas, Ryan has done more than 200 media interviews. He is fluent in Spanish and semi-fluent in Portuguese. He has interviewed with national media outlets in Colombia, Japan and Catalonia. He is influential in Brazil and has also spoken about tech censorship in Spain, Argentina, Sweden and Guatemala.
His efforts led to a criminal referral to the DOJ for Mark Zuckerberg, and he also aided in an FEC complaint against Facebook in the John James vs Gary Peters U.S. Senate race in Michigan. The material gathered has also been used in Laura Loomer’s RICO lawsuit against Facebook as well as in a constitutional challenge against the government brought by Jason Fyk. On May 29th, 2024, Ryan testified before the Texas state legislature resulting in a subpoena against Meta.
Ryan holds a degree in Spanish Linguistics from Arizona State University and is the author of Behind the Mask of Facebook: A Whistleblower’s Shocking Story of Big Tech Bias and Censorship with Kent Heckenlively, JD, published in August 2021, which is an analysis of Facebook’s content moderation policies. Ryan currently lives in Arizona with his wife and two daughters.
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Op Eds:
https://nypost.com/2021/07/09/how-facebook-is-turning-beloved-american-values-on-their-head/
Letters to the Editor while a student at Arizona State University
https://www.statepress.com/article/2012/09/promise-arizona-deters-citizens-from-protesting
https://www.statepress.com/article/2014/09/letters-no-guns-means-criminal-haven
https://www.statepress.com/article/2012/11/letter-university-senate-restricts-land-usage-in-tempe
https://www.statepress.com/article/2012/08/campus-club-makes-chocolate-a-priority
