Matt Steinberg is a technology policy researcher focused on privacy, AI governance, and platform accountability — translating technical systems and empirical evidence into frameworks for lawmakers, regulators, and civil society.

He is currently a Policy Fellow at the Knight-Georgetown Institute, where he co-authored a comparative analysis of how regulators and courts evaluate evidence of platform harms and platform mitigation claims. Previously, at the Open Technology Institute at New America, he authored a policy brief on agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol that won the 2026 Future of Privacy Forum Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.

Before entering the policy world, Matt spent seven years as a writer and development executive in film and television, working on projects including Netflix's Tick, Tick…Boom!, FX's Fosse/Verdon, and Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen. He also wrote (Socially Unacceptable), a play about the ethics of content moderation that was produced at theaters around the country.

He holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University's McCourt School and a B.A. from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.