No Longer Untouchable: Product Design Lawsuits Expose Social Media’s Vulnerability

Attorneys representing victims of social media may have finally found Big Tech’s Achilles Heel: product design. From the late 1990s on, hundreds of lawsuits against social media companies (including Meta, Google/YouTube, TikTok, and Snap) alleging harms such as cyberbullying, self-harm and suicide, eating disorders, sexual exploitation, and harm resulting from viral challenges were dismissed in […]

Addictive By Design

She sits in a darkened room, face illuminated only by the constantly changing colors and flashing lights of the screen. She has lost all sense of time. The occasional “ding” gives her the momentary dopamine hit she’s been chasing for hours, but still she craves more. So she keeps going, hoping for the big payout […]

What Parents Need to Know About Instagram’s New Teen Account Restrictions

This week, Meta, the parent company of Instagram, announced new PG-13 content restrictions that will automatically apply to all Instagram accounts belonging to users under the age of 18. Minors will not be able to opt out of these restrictions without a parent’s permission. The same limitations will also apply to Meta’s AI-powered “digital companions,” […]

Senate Hearing Reveals Meta Buried Research into Online Child Abuse

It has been over a year since Mark Zuckerburg stood in front of a room full of grieving parents and apologized for the many children who have been irreversibly harmed by his online platforms. On that day, he promised to make things right, to protect future users from exploitation. But in a Senate hearing last […]

Fighting the Government-Big Tech Manipulation

One of the most concerning aspects of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice’s malicious targeting of parents and others that merely disagree with the government-approved narrative as “domestic terrorists” is that it undermines the actual war against terrorism. The fact is that terrorist organizations like ISIS have pledged harm to our country, and our government […]