A Call to Pause in a Culture of Reaction
From the moment we wake up until the moment we lay down to sleep, we are inundated with media, information, opinions, and noise. We are given no time to process a headline or a news story before the next one demands our attention. Oftentimes, we feel an emotional pull to immediately choose a side and […]
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 […]
Grok’s Deepfake Problem
It has been observed that whenever new technology is introduced, bad actors are often the first to exploit it. Or, more accurately, they are the first to use the new technology to exploit others. In late December, X (formerly Twitter) introduced a new image and video edit tool for Grok, the platform’s proprietary AI interface. […]
CWA / YWA at the Texas Youth Summit
The future of America rests in the hearts and minds of the next generation. That’s why organizations like our own Young Women for America (YWA) and others exist to equip students to advocate for Christian truths and conservative policies. It was also the mission of Charlie Kirk, and that fact weighed heavily on us as […]
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 […]
Boycotting Conservative Platforms is the Corporate Trend
Analysis of the House Judiciary Hearing on GARM Advertising Policies The House Judiciary Committee released groundbreaking findings on July 10, confirming that some media companies are purposely steering ads and ad revenue away from platforms perceived to be conservative. In his opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee on July 10, political pundit and columnist, […]
Protecting Our Kids Online Must Be A Top Priority
A recent survey found that teenagers spend eight hours and 39 minutes a day on screens while tweens spend five hours and 44 minutes a day on screens. This becomes even more disconcerting knowing that the average teen in America sleeps only around 7 hours a night. American teenagers spend more time on their cellphones than sleeping; that is […]
Conservative Leaders Offer Principles to Counter Biased Social Media
The Free Speech Alliance (FSA), a coalition in which CWA participates, responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order addressing social media platforms’ bias against conservatives by releasing the following statement setting out four principles these platforms need to adopt. Read the Entire Response and Four Principles Here