Ben Scott seeks to rewrite anti-tech lobbying rulebook

From an office in London's diamond district, Ben Scott has his eyes set on Big Tech. The former tech policy aide to Hillary Clinton has spent the last three years leapfrogging between elections from Germany to Canada looking for ways to counter the rise of online misinformation and halt the growing dominance of social media giants. Now, the 42-year-old, who worked with Clinton when she was Secretary of State and during her failed 2016 presidential bid, is reentering the fight with a new lobbying shop called Reset. It aims take on the power of Silicon Valley companies just as officials from Brussels to Ottawa look to rewrite the rules for the digital world. With up to $10 million in annual funding from philanthropic organization Luminate and the Sandler Foundation — a US-based donor that also supports the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union and media outlet ProPublica — Reset hopes to level the playing field between Big Tech and lawmakers. It will help officials gain access to data, and insider knowledge, that so far have been largely shielded from public view.