# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-sirota
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:19.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-sirota"
name: "David Sirota"
slug: "david-sirota"
description: "David J. Sirota is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, a reader-supported investigative news outlet focused on exposing the negative influence of corporate corruption on American society. Sirota was a speechwriter and senior adviser for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. In 2022, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for conceiving the story for Netflix's Don't Look Up alongside co-writer and director Adam McKay."
tagline: "American blogger"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Sirota_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1975-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.427118666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davidsirota"
    handle:    "davidsirota"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/davidsirota/"
    handle:    "davidsirota"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/rocktheboat"
    handle:    "rocktheboat"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1998503/"
    handle:    "nm1998503"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.davidsirota.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "David Sirota"
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    title: "ديڤيد سيروتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "دیوید سیوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sirota"
    title: "David Sirota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sirota"
    title: "David Sirota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sirota"
    title: "David Sirota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sirota"
    title: "David Sirota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239837"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3076572"
    title: "David Sirota"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump