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Mechanisms:

• Big Tobacco-style publicly funded awareness and literacy campaign (e.g. 1990’s )
• Better ID verification to identify minors for access to services + age-appropriate design
• Health authorities to help draft guidelines for tech on fostering healthy child development
• Preventing & combating technology/screen addiction
• Kid-friendly default settings to limit notifications, limit infinite scrolling, warning labels
• Restore "Saturday morning cartoon" level protections for kids and advertising

Existing/proposed measures:����

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• (UK)
• (Australia)
• (EU)

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Mechanisms:

• Comprehensive federal privacy legislation including a private right of action, do-not-track by default, do-not-sell by default
• Ban
• Expanded FTC authority + leaning into the ��

Existing/proposed measures:

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• (EU forthcoming)
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Mechanisms:

• Mandatory transparency libraries & tools, including user-friendly APIs
• Political ads transparency, including purchaser identity & price transparency
• Scale-related transparency requirements (e.g., recommendation rates for videos, groups, posts)

Existing/proposed measures:

• (US)
• (US)
• (US)
• (US)
• (US)
• (OTA) - like an “early warning system”
  

Mechanisms:

• Consider fiduciary obligations + duties of care
• Establish acceptable risk ratios/safe operating thresholds for social platforms (as we do with ), tying responsibility with increasing risk. For example: content moderation, safe/unsafe virality ratios and recommendation systems, #trending topics, fake accounts of total accounts, unsafe, unaccountable variations of split-testing, advertising
• Slow down or disable unsafe platform functions ()��
• Incentives to audit high-risk algorithms (aka , per Coded Bias)

Existing/proposed measures:

• Consider Section 230 reforms focused on tying liability to amplification/virality
• Expand the FTC’s supervisory and rulemaking authority
• Expand the FCC’s broadcast regulatory authority over social media-based comms/news
• (EU)
• (UK)��
• Pass the (US)
• Pass the “” (US)
• (Algorithmic Justice League)
• Adopt / transparency / recall / notification mechanisms for take-downs
• risk ratings of media sources
  

Mechanisms:

• Publicly funded programs for people to know themselves better than tech knows our weaknesses
• Protect rights to “”
• Ban behavioral advertising & microtargeting/hyper-personalization (allow contextual ads only)
• Combating dark patterns & preventing experimentation on users
• Rules/limits on real-time bidding (RTB)
• Responsibility to prevent foreign interference & manipulation via states or state-sanctioned actors
• Responsibility to take down coordinated bot networks, automated accounts

Existing/proposed measures:

• (US)
• (US)
• (EU - GDPR)��
• (UK)

Mechanisms:

• Prevent data silos & co-mingling across platforms (per German federal court decision)
• Prevent mergers that inhibit competition/choice (e.g., vertical integrations)
• Ex ante regulations��

Existing/proposed measures:

• into Facebook and Google
• (EU)
• (EU)

Mechanisms:

• Closing existing loopholes (e.g., mandating legal establishment of a business where it operates)
• Passing legislation to tax digital services
• Fund/subsidize conventional media/publishers through a tax on big tech
• Digital advertising taxes

Existing/proposed measures:����

• (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)
• (UK)

Mechanisms:

• Mandate registration by foreign agents + penalties for state-sponsored foreign interference
• Establish effective oversight authority & mechanisms
• Expand the (Global Internet Forum to Counter-Terrorism) to cover additional categories
• Early warning systems to identify cross-platform coordinated activity
• Better authentication mechanisms
• Better cooperation protocols between public/private sector

Existing/proposed measures

• (FARA - US Department of Justice)