Alex Feerst is General Counsel at Neuralink, a company developing implantable brain-machine interfaces.He spent four years as Head of Legal and Head of Trust and Safety at publishing platform Medium, where he led enforcement of the platform’s content policies, and continues to serve as the company’s trust and safety advisor. He is working on an oral history of online content moderation, of which an excerpt, “Your Speech, Their Rules,” recently appeared on Medium.He serves as President of the San Francisco Intellectual Property Association, an advisory board member for the Trust & Safety Professional Association, and a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society.
