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Dave Willner is a Co-Founder at Zentropi, the company behind CoPE, a best-in-class small language model capable of accurate and steerable content classification. 

He was previously a non-resident fellow in Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and worked in industry as Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, as Head of Community Policy at Airbnb, and as Head of Content Policy at Meta (formerly Facebook).

Community

Washington Post

Tech workers face new H-1B scrutiny as Trump targets ‘censorship’

Affiliate Dave Willner and Faculty Associated Evelyn Douek are quoted in a story about the State Department's actions towards denying visas to workers involved in content…

Dec 6, 2025
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media

Threads of Wisdom

Experts React to Meta’s Policy Changes

Meta's recent overhaul of its content moderation approach marks a significant shift in platform governance. To explore these implications, BKC's Institute for Rebooting Social…

Jan 17, 2025

Events

Oct 22, 2025 @ 12:30 PM

Automating Content Policy

Fall Speaker Series

AI is no longer just moderating individual posts — it is learning how to interpret and enforce policy itself. Dave Willner — who has led trust and safety teams at Facebook, Airbnb…

Event
Mar 20, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Moderating AI and Moderating with AI

RSM Speaker Series

RSM welcomes Dave Willner for a talk on the promises and perils that foundation models present for the field of content moderation.