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Craig Newmark is the founder and customer service representative of craigslist, with a goal to keep craigslist free of spammers and scammers. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. In 2006, he donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, which plans to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet.
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| Born | December 6, 1952 Hillside, New Jersey, United States |
| Known for | Founder of the website Craigslist |
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952) is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist.
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Newmark was born in Hillside, New Jersey and graduated from Morristown High School, in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1971. He is Jewish.[1][2] Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 and a Master of Science degree in 1977.[3]
Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. In 2006 he donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, which plans to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet.[4]
Newmark resides in San Francisco's Cole Valley and is active at Craigslist in customer service, mostly dealing with spammers and scammers.[5] In 2009 he became a member of the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board.[6]
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