Louis is a technologist, researcher and campaigner with a focus on making tech issues more accessible to the public. Louis is the founder of PikTop the world’s biggest public leaderboard of TikTok videos, and Attention, a publication at the intersection of tech and fun.
Louis is a Senior Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation and a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School. In 2021, Louis was banned and legally threatened by Meta for creating Unfollow Everything, a tool to delete users’ news feeds, leading to a major lawsuit against Meta. Previously, Louis was one of two inaugural Fellows at Berkman Klein Center’s Applied Social Media Lab. As an entrepreneur, Louis has built and sold multiple startups.
