Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members. He is also a contributing editor to “The Baffler” and on the “Council of Advisors to The Rules.”. He is a frequent television commentator and the author of numerous articles, which. are specially-focused on the corrupting influence of big money on institutions including nonprofits, the media, politics, and public opinion. From 2010-11, he researched these topics as a member at the Harvard Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. He also served on the board of Change Congress.. Swartz has also developed the site theinfo.org. Working with web inventor Tim Berners-Lee at MIT, he helped develop and popularize standards for sharing data on the web. He also coauthored the RSS 1.0 specification, which is widely used for publishing news stories.. In 2007, he led the development of the non-profit Open Library, an ambitious project to collect information about every book ever published. He also co-founded the online news site Reddit.
