Ryan grew up in Mesa, Arizona and spent time in Mexico City as a volunteer
with a humanitarian organization. His love for Spanish motivated him to pursue
a bachelors degree in Spanish Linguistics. That expertise in Spanish led to him
finding a job with Cognizant, where he monitored and moderated social media
activity for Facebook throughout the United States and Latin America.
Ryan was a content moderator for nearly two years working for Cognizant, subcontracted by Facebook in Phoenix, Arizona. He worked in queues for Latin America and also North America, and reviewed and deleted groups, pages, posts, comments, and videos for Facebook and Instagram.
Since going public in June 2020, Ryan has done more than 170 interviews. He is fluent in Spanish and semi-fluent in Portuguese. He has interviewed with national media outlets in Colombia, Brazil, Japan and Russia. He is a minor political celebrity in Brazil and has also spoken about tech censorship in Spain, Argentina, Sweden and Guatemala.
He is a regular guest on America's Voice and has made appearances on One America News and Newsmax.
His efforts have led to a criminal referral to the DOJ for Mark Zuckerberg, and he also aided in an FEC complaint against Facebook in the John James vs Gary Peters U.S. Senate race in Michigan.
He writes about this experience and his time working for Facebook in his book, Behind the Mask of Facebook: A Whistleblower's Shocking Story of Big Tech Bias and Censorship.
