Dangerous by Design - How Social Media Companies Are Hurting Our Kids, National Security, and Democracy —

A recent national poll conducted by Citizen Data for Issue One and the Council for Responsible Social Media found that an overwhelming majority of Americans support creating guardrails for social media platforms.21 Eight out of 10 surveyed — including 84% of Republicans and 83% of Democrats — want to hold social media companies accountable for the harm they are doing, and strongly support federal. [...] Now is the time for Congress to get a Member of the Council for meaningful bill across the finish line to rein in social media.” Responsible Social Media and founder of Design It For Us Parents across the country are ready for meaningful action against social media companies. [...] We need the political will to acknowledge that this is the tipping point for our society, between healthy and unhealthy, safe and unsafe, productive and destructive — and move forward on the side of social media that supports and enhances a healthy democracy and civil society. [...] University’s Stern School of Business, and member of the Council for Responsible Social Media, “there is now a great deal of evidence that social media is a substantial cause, not just a tiny correlate, of depression and anxiety, and therefore of behaviors related to depression and anxiety, including self-harm and suicide.”76 Facebook’s own research showed that a group of teenagers who’d experienc. [...] UNESCO has UNESCO, in a 2017 research report on the role of the internet identified social and social media in the development of radicalization media as a among youth, identified social media as a “facilitating “facilitating environment” for violent radicalization.