A youth-led coalition of activists and organizations demanding a better online world for everyone. #DesignItForUs
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With millions of teens using Instagram and being automatically placed into Instagram Teen Accounts, we wanted to see if these accounts actually create a safer online experience. Check out what we found.
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WOW! Still cannot get over this video. 😭😭😭
We're so grateful for the support of the @RTyouthpower and Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
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Wow. Can't believe that Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, called our Co-chair @emmalembke.
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Still can't believe this happened! We're so grateful for the support of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
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What an honor. Thank you Prince Harry and Meghan! 🥳🥳
We're grateful to have their support in advocating for policy for safer social media for kids, teens, and young adults.
In a new video, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced the youth-led initiatives that will be joining their Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund. vntyfr.com/yLvGlbp
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We're working hard to advocate for policy to protect not just us online, but the next generation — including Archie and Lilibet. 🙌🙏 people.com/meghan-markle-pri…
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As our Co-chair @emmalembke said:
"The duke and the duchess, and all of their work, have been pivotal in moving so many social issues forward and bringing visibility to a lot of important areas, and specifically responsible tech.” vanityfair.com/style/2023/08…
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“To be able to have that support system is monumental and deepening our ability to connect with one another and our communities," said our Co-chair @EmmaLembke of our grant from @rtyouthpower. fox2now.com/news/missouri/lo…
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We're so fortunate that Design It For Us is one of 26 recipients alongside @encodejustice, @genzforchange, @logoffmovement, @rethinkwords, @ncypalliance, and @CivicsUnplugged.
Together, we're fighting for a safer online world for young people. vanityfair.com/style/2023/08…
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Really great to see Dr. Murthy and Archewell Foundation continue to elevate this critical issue in their work!
It's important to have parents in the room when talking about social media’s impacts on #YouthMentalHealth. That's why Archewell Foundation and I came together on #WorldMentalHealthDay to hear from parents about their experiences and discuss a path towards a safer online world.
ALT U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in dicussion with the Duke and Duchess, Carson Daly, and parents in New York City.
ALT U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in dicussion with the Duke and Duchess and Carson Daly in New York City.
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That’s also why we love when any conversation about the impact of social media involves those impacted – us! Shoutout to Meghan and Prince Harry for prioritizing listening to young folks: people.com/royals/meghan-mar…
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We're thrilled to be a part of @RTYouthPower’s first cohort of organizations shaping the movement for responsible technology!
With their support, we'll continue to advocate for policy to protect kids, teens, and young adults online.
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We're grateful for the @RTyouthpower. As our Co-chair @zamaan_qureshi said:
"The fund is bringing together a huge number of movers and shakers in the responsible tech youth power movement—and it really is a movement."vanityfair.com/style/2023/08…
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We're so proud of our Co-chair @EmmaLembke! 🥳
Watch her share the exciting news about the support she is receiving from the @rtyouthpower for Design It For Us and the @logoffmovement. fox2now.com/news/missouri/lo…
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Hey Mark Zuckerberg,
Your company calculated the lifetime value of a teen to be $270. We’re here to say we’re worth more than $270.
It’s time Big Tech is held accountable for profiting off our mental health and well-being.
Sincerely,
@DesignItForUs
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HUGE News: We're in the Sunday edition of the @WashingtonPost!
As digital natives, our experience makes us experts to stand up to Big Tech, whose products exploit our data, well-being, and mental health for profit.
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The @FTC’s proposal to ban Meta from monetizing kids and teens’ data is a HUGE step forward in protecting us online.
Watch our Co-Chair @emmalembke break it down in this new explainer:
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“Ten years from now, social media will not be what it is today. It will be what people of my generation build it to be.”
Watch our Co-chair @EmmaLembke share how Gen Z will hold Big Tech accountable for their profit-driven harm by advocating for legislation including #KOSA.
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Thank you @senblumenthal for meeting with us last week to listen to our stories and discuss how your bipartisan legislation—the Kids Online Safety Act—will protect kids online.
We urge the Senate Commerce Committee to pass #KOSA out of committee tomorrow.
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JUST NOW: The Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA is unanimously voted out of the Senate Commerce Committee by voice vote. 🎉
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If Mark Zuckerberg had nothing to hide, he wouldn't be skirting around every question about child exploitation material on Instagram.
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Gut wrenching moment from yesterday's hearing when Arturo Béjar makes clear to @SenBlumenthal that Meta's senior executives knew about Instagram and Facebook's harms to kids and disregarded it.
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An apology without action is just damage control.
Here is the exact language of Mark’s address to the families in today’s hearing.
“I’m sorry for everything you have all been through. No one should go through the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and we are going to continue doing industry wide efforts to make sure no one has to go through the things your families have had to suffer."
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We don't really believe Linda Yaccarino is acting in our best interests when Twitter spent $900,000 on lobbying last year to defeat common sense legislation.
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Hellooooooo Twitter! We’re a coalition of young people and youth-led organizations taking on Big Tech. 👋🏼
Give us a follow and join us in the fight for policy for safer social media and online platforms for kids, teens, and young adults: designitforus.org/
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We are launched! 🚀
BIG thanks to everyone for turning out tonight. And special shoutout to @FrancesHaugen for joining us with such an inspiring call to action for young people to stand up to Big Tech.
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Thank you @MarshaBlackburn for calling attention to Facebook's internal documents, which estimate the lifetime value of a 13 y/o user to be $270.
Our safety and futures can't be quantified.
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If Meta didn't have anything to hide, they wouldn't be trying to shut down the @FTC lawsuit against them for violating federal children's privacy law.
At this point, Meta acts like they are just playing a game. But for us -- it's our lives.
Meta Platforms sued the US FTC claiming its in-house trials violate the Constitution and asked a court to immediately halt the agency’s bid to change a 2020 privacy settlement. trib.al/O2u9DRC
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.@karaswisher and @profgalloway said it best:
Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg
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Destroying our mental health for profit
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We’re putting up signs on the west lawn of the US Capitol today.
Each sign represents the story of one of our members from across the country calling for lawmakers to pass policy requiring Big Tech platforms to #DesignItForUs.
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We were in DC this week advocating for legislation to put the onus on Big Tech to make the internet safer for young people by default and by design.
Young people deserve a seat at the policymaking table. 🧵
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Every sign in our installation today at the U.S. Capitol represented the story of one of our coalition members—and why we're urging Congress to pass legislation requiring online platforms to #DesignItForUs.
We wanted to share a few here: 🧵
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We were thrilled to meet Baroness Beeban Kidron of the @5RightsFound, @Cunning_Jordan, and @BuffyWicks during our week of action in D.C.
We're grateful for their work to protect kids online and were proud to work with them on passing the California Age Appropriate Design Code.
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No way! It's our Co-Chair @zamaan_qureshi with @Surgeon_General Dr. Vivek Murthy.
We're so grateful for the @Surgeon_General's leadership in addressing the youth mental health crisis.
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We love to see it.
After our week of lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the Kids Online Safety Act and Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act are heading to a markup next Thursday: commerce.senate.gov/2023/7/e…
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Meta can put out all the press releases they want and get all the headlines they want, but the truth is that they have known about these harms for years.
If they cared about our wellbeing, they would have taken steps years ago to prevent harm. npr.org/2024/01/09/122358354…
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Exactly right! As the @Surgeon_General testified today on the youth mental health crisis:
We need "safety standards for social media that help protect kids from exposure to harmful content" as well as "from features that seek to manipulate them into excessive use."
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Social media platforms -- not parents, not kids -- should have the sole responsibility to ensure their products won't cause their users harm.
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Our Co-chair @Zamaan_Qureshi got straight to the point: Social media doesn’t have to come at the expense of kids’ privacy and mental health.
Tech execs leverage our time, likeness, and insecurities for profit and it’s past time to hold them to account. #KOSA could change that.
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The #MDKidsCode has unanimously passed out of both chambers in the Maryland legislature!
Next step: @GovWesMoore’s desk!!! 🥳
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"For women and girls, the AI threat is not around the corner. It is here,” said @ma_franks in support of a bill to criminalize the sharing of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes and and allow victims to sue. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/d…
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“As a society we have allowed a situation to develop where we have this complicated — or rapidly evolving — technology that’s helping some people, that’s harming many, and we haven’t put in the safeguards or guardrails to mitigate it” - @Surgeon_General
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BIG NEWS: The Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA has been updated and 62 senators now co-sponsor the bill including Majority Leader @SenSchumer.
Here’s a rundown of the updates: 🧵
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Watch Mark Zuckerberg apologize to parents who have lost children to the harms of his social media platforms. @ncypalliance @ptogetheraction
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We're thrilled to introduce the Core Team members of the #DesignItForUs coalition!
Talk about an all-star team taking on Big Tech:
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Taking a moment here to share more about the Age Appropriate Design Code we helped pass in California last year!
This is bipartisan legislation requiring online platforms to protect the privacy and safety of kids and teens online by design and default.
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"Meet the Greta Thunberg of AI"
Meet our Core Team Member @sneharevanur who's building a global, youth-powered movement for human-centered artificial intelligence with @encodejustice.
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We have a pretty good feeling about how Wednesday’s heading with Big Tech CEOs is going to go.
Follow along with us. :)
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➡️ ICYMI: After coalition member @TrishPrabhu was cyberbullied, she realized she couldn't trust adults to change the digital status quo. Now, she's advocating for #KOSA to create safeguards for a healthier internet. themessenger.com/opinion/how…
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👏👏 Coalition member Sophie Szew: “The algorithms are designed to trigger because triggering content is addictive. We are likely to engage with content that shocks us, and we see this a lot with young people." latimes.com/politics/story/2…
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BREAKING: Montana lawmakers vote to completely ban TikTok in the state, reports @b_fung .
Our coalition co-chairs @emmalembke and @zamaan_qureshi shared their thoughts: cnn.com/2023/04/14/tech/mont…
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A former Meta adviser, Danish psychologist Lotte Rubæk, resigned over the company's failure to tackle self-harm content on the platform.
The company claims to want to keep kids safe, she says, but their primary agenda is to hook users and make money. theguardian.com/technology/2…
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We’re excited to release our new policy platform! 🎉We’ve created a set of key principles we see as critical for any activist, policymaker or legislator to center when addressing privacy, safety and wellbeing online.💡
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.@julesterpak shares why Nathan wants Big Tech and online platforms to design it for humanity:
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OMG OMG brb crying. Hailey Bieber just shared our graphics on Instagram. 😭😭😭 instagram.com/stories/hailey…
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Our very own @EmmaLembke is the face of the Senate Judiciary website!
Last year, she made history when she testified as a young person in front of the committee, urging them to take action to protect kids online.
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📺: Youth advocate @ariellegeismar causally nailed this impromptu television interview about why we need to pass the #MDKidsCode.
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So proud of our core team coalition members @EmmaLembke, @sneharevanur, and @samhiner for being called by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex! dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Appreciate this shoutout from @rweingarten at today's #TEACH23 Conference!
We're proud to join @AFTunion, @ptogetheraction, @fairplayforkids, and @APA in calling on social media companies to make changes to prioritize our safety and well-being.
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Our response in @CNN:
"Design it For Us, a youth coalition pushing for changes to social media in the face of mental health concerns said lawmakers should focus on shaping the basic product design of social media platforms, rather than imposing after-the-fact usage limitations."
Under the bill, social media platforms would be barred from letting kids below the age of 13 create accounts or interact with other users, though children would still be permitted to view content without logging into an account cnn.it/3NbMysd
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We're joining @fairplayforkids, @DigitalDemoc, and @CCDHate in urging Meta to cancel plans to open its Horizon Worlds platform to teens. We can't afford to let profit-driven companies launch untested projects on young people.
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It’s mental health awareness month. Here are 3 things we have to say about #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth: 🧵
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Our very own @MatthewAllaire3 just crushed it!!!
So glad to have the opportunity to speak in support of the #MNKidsCode, which would "[require] companies to meaningfully prioritize the wellbeing of underage users over profits."
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NEW: Our statement on the signing of the misguided Arkansas social media law. designitforus.org/press/desi…
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If Mark Zuckerberg and co were truly committed to protecting us online, they wouldn't lobby against legislation to do just that.
There are bills on the table to create a safe digital world for young people and Congress must step up.
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We’re here on Capitol Hill today to make clear to Big Tech CEOs that we’re not a number.
Our mental health and well-being is worth more than $270, Mark Zuckerberg.
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ICYMI: Our Co-Chair @EmmaLembke shared her own personal story with @NPR about how social media platforms led her down a dangerous path towards disordered eating.
It's past time for these companies to be held accountable for serving harmful content to kids.npr.org/sections/health-shot…
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: New op-ed from our Co-Chairs @EmmaLembke and @zamaan_qureshi calls out Utah and Arkansas laws for letting Big Tech off the hook:
"We need to establish standards that make platforms safer, not keep us off of them." gizmodo.com/utah-and-arkansa…
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STATEMENT: Design It For Us Applauds Senate Commerce Markup Announcement on Kids’ Online Safety Bills. designitforus.org/press/desi…
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👀 👀: We’re in the newspaper!
We’re up with a full-page ad TODAY in the @baltimoresun calling on the Maryland to pass the #MDKidsCode.
This is Maryland’s chance to lead the nation in protecting our privacy and data online: marylandkidscode.com/
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We had a great roundtable at @rightscon today with our co-chairs @EmmaLembke and @zamaan_qureshi.
Watch Emma break down why we care so deeply about elevating human stories towards our mission:
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Hey, that's us! 👋🏼
As young people who have grown up online, we have lived through the harms perpetuated by Big Tech's online platforms and social media.
We demand a seat at the table when it comes to policy to protect kids online. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Young people deserve a voice in building their digital environment.
Not only is protecting kids and teens online good policy, but it’s overwhelmingly popular.
🚨New polling from @CCDHate:
81% of teens agree that platforms should build products according to safety by design.
71% of teens agree social platforms and executives should be held responsible for harms.
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PRESS RELEASE: Design It For Us Applauds Passage of Maryland Kids Code designitforus.org/press/desi…
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So many signs! So many stories from our members across the country demanding that online platforms #DesignItForUs.
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We are proud to join @AFTunion in calling on Big Tech companies to make changes to protect kids online.
It's time Big Tech put our health and well-being ahead of profit. #DesignItForUs
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😮 Our core team member @sneharevanur, a leader in the AI space, is joining @VP at the White House to discuss "the Societal Impact of AI."
📺 Follow along: piped.video/watch?v=FD1zg92m…
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We're grateful for Jenna Ortega's honesty and openness about social media's harms to young people:
“It's such a hard thing to balance. How do you be honest without jeopardizing your own health and safety? It's very easy to feel out of control.”
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NEW: @SenBlumenthal and @MarshaBlackburn just re-introduced the Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA, which would establish protections for kids’ well-being online.
Watch highlights from a virtual press conference today that included our Co-chairs @zamaan_qureshi and @emmalembke:
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Our experience is our expertise! We’re thrilled to be at the #ATSummit speaking about our work to create safer digital spaces for young people.
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Jenna Ortega is right. It is manipulative.
"It almost influences bandwagon mentality…as soon as you see a trend, especially the way the algorithms are set up, it’s all you're seeing and feeding on, and it’s just not brainwashing in a sense, but very very manipulative.”
Jenna Ortega starts to cry as she talks to Elle Fanning about how toxic social media can be: "It's such a hard thing to balance. How do you be honest without jeopardizing your own health and safety? It's very easy to feel out of control." wp.me/pc8uak-1lCAfu
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We've gone global!!
Thank you @Primaonline for publishing a piece on our work to create safer and healthier online spaces for young people!
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GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE!
We’re taking over the @baltimoresun website today to let everyone know:
Maryland can lead the nation in protecting kids online with the #MDKidsCode. baltimoresun.com/
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Just like our co-chair @emmalembke said before Congress:
“Make no mistake, unregulated social media is a weapon of mass destruction that continues to jeopardize the safety, privacy and well-being of American youth.”
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Big Tech’s rhetoric on #VTKidsCode isn’t scaring us, and it isn’t fooling our co-chair @zamaan_qureshi either.
“This kind of tech reform is currently law in the United Kingdom, and last I checked, the internet is not broken.” 🔥
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Read our statement on the lawsuit against Meta for their role in the youth mental health crisis: designitforus.org/press/stat…
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Our co-chair @zamaan_qureshi joined other stakeholders today to share our perspective with @linakhanFTC during an @FTC Open Commission meeting.
Watch Zamaan’s remarks:
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New in Politico Morning Tech:
“Design It for Us - a youth-led coalition of advocates pushing for kids online safety legislation - also blanketed Capitol Hill with 100 lawn signs on Monday to demand passage of KOSA and the Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act.”
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Still thinking about our Co-Chair @emmalembke’s powerful Senate testimony:
“As I began to spend more time online, I was met with a harsh reality. Social media was not magic—it was an illusion, a product that was predicated on maximizing my attention at the cost of my wellbeing.”
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Thanks to our partners for co-hosting yesterday's rally: @AccountableTech, @Public_Citizen, @Eko_Movement, @fairplayforkids, @Tech_Oversight, @ncypalliance, @parents4sos, and @AFTunion.
Together, we can create an internet designed with us in mind.
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