Matan Uziel (Hebrew: מתן עוזיאל; born 21 April 1985) is an Israeli former high-tech entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker.

[1][2][3] On 22 November, BuzzFeed News published an article about unsettling videos on YouTube that depict children in disturbing and abusive situations.

The information on the article came with the assistance of Matan Uziel whose investigation and report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on that matter were sent on 22 September, informing its leadership about "tens of thousands of videos available on YouTube that we know are crafted to serve as eye candy for perverted, creepy adults, online predators to indulge in their child fantasies.

[17] In October 2021, it was reported that Uziel was the originating force behind helping Charlotte Lewis to sue and indict Roman Polanski.

[18] In November 2022, Polanski filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva against the domain name imetpolanski.com operated by Uziel.

[30][31][32] During his tenure, he created a Change.org petition against Spreadshirt, accusing the e-commerce company for selling shirts that appeared to glamorize eating disorders.

[33][34] In August 2017, Uziel started a petition calling for convicted child rapist and former priest Paul Shanley to live in a treatment facility where he will have no access to children.