Christopher John Moran Jr. is a filmmaker, technologist, and investigator behind Lie Detector Media.

He graduated cum laude from Harvard University in Economics and earned a Certificate of Achievement in French. While at Harvard he presented research on the facial nerve condition synkinesis at the Middle Section of the Triological Society, becoming the first teenager to present a paper at the meeting, and was published as first author in the medical journal The Laryngoscope.

He later attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where his thesis film screened at multiple festivals and won several awards. His professional work has included film production and post-production, along with five years teaching Apple software, including specialized Final Cut Pro workshops in Los Angeles.

Moran later spent five years as an Apple Genius repairing iPhones and Macs before working at Apple’s corporate repair center in Austin. He lives in Austin with his wife and two children.

On April 11, 2012, while Moran was teaching a music editing lesson at an Apple Store, a customer accidentally blew out a headphone speaker at close range, causing a permanent ear injury.

Under California workers’ compensation law, employers must provide medical treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of a work injury, which can include lifetime medical care.

As treatment denials accumulated over the years, Moran reported the conduct of Apple’s workers’ compensation administrator, Sedgwick, and its reviewing physicians through Apple’s internal channels, including Apple HR, the Business Conduct Team, SVP Deirdre O’Brien, and CEO Tim Cook. Apple has not taken action to address the conduct described in those complaints.

Through Lie Detector Media, Moran now uses AI-assisted document analysis, investigative storytelling, and multimedia reporting to examine the gap between what medical records show and what claim decisions say.