Michael O'Connell-Davidson

Michael O’Connell-Davidson works in TikTok’s Trust & Safety Transparency team, turning enforcement data into reports for regulators and the public, from Ofcom's UK Online Safety Act regime to the EU’s disinformation code. He has supplied data for more than 300 disclosures, wrote TikTok’s crisis data-sharing playbook and launched its Frauds and Scams Prevention Hub. Before that he spent five years at Dataminr spotting crises as they broke, after starting out as a journalist on a British national newspaper. He has an MSc in data science and now builds AI tools, from MCP servers to an assistant his team uses to pull and check its data.