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• Algorithms are responsible for pushing both kids - and countries - towards extremism. Democracy backsliding and ethnic violence are connected to mental health harms because of the algorithms that govern them. Ethnic violence videos escalate to civil war, just like food videos escalate to pro-anorexia content.
• Embedded growth obligation (EGO) is a key driver of these problems. Facebook has kind, conscientious people inside who want to do better, but their hands are tied. They’re beholden to market incentives, yet are being tasked with important non-profit type societal work like maintaining public safety and national security.
• There are simple, practical solutions available that could immediately make a huge impact. Requiring people to 1) click a link before sharing it and 2) reshare via copying and pasting are examples of fixes that would have the same impact as the work of an entire third-party fact checking team of journalists at Facebook, according to Haugen.��
• The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) would oblige companies like Meta to open their data to researchers who are studying the effects of these platforms on public health and democracy. The bill came about in direct response to disclosures from Frances and other social media whistleblowers. PATA hasn’t been introduced to Congress, but it has bipartisan support.

A project of Issue One, CRSM is a cross-partisan group of leaders addressing the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in America.

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Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a former Twitter security executive, testified on privacy and security issues relating to the social media company before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Beyond the Screen is a coalition of technologists, designers, and thinkers fighting against online harms, led by the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.

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