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New agreement advances safer product design on Instagram and Facebook to address social media harms to young people, but leaves key engagement-maximizing features linked to those harms in place by default.
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Measuring Risk II finds that Snap and YouTube have internal capabilities to measure risk and evaluate safety interventions, yet their public risk assessments provide little evidence that their safety mitigations reach users or work in practice.
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A new framework from the Knight-Georgetown Institute, Tech Justice Law, and the USC Marshall School Neely Center provides a practical, evidence-based guide to help litigators, courts, and policymakers craft effective, enforceable remedies for harms linked to social media and generative AI chatbot companies, as lawsuits expand across the United States.
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This week’s verdicts against Meta and YouTube in landmark social media trials in the US underscore the real harms users link to social media design – including addiction, lasting mental health impacts, and exposure to predators – and highlight the need for these companies to overhaul design choices that prioritize engagement over safety.
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As the 2025-2026 legislative session in Minnesota progresses, KGI is encouraged by support in both the State House and Senate for legislation promoting algorithmic feeds that prioritize users’ long-term interests over short-term attention maximization.
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Online age assurance requirements are reshaping how people access digital services worldwide. KGI’s latest report examines how these systems work and the tradeoffs inherent in their deployment.
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Provisions in a new bill introduced in Alabama would advance transparency and user control in algorithmic feeds on social media platforms, reflecting key recommendations from KGI’s Better Feeds guidelines. The legislation signals a shift beyond existing “addictive feeds” approaches toward algorithms designed to promote long-term user value.
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A new report released today by the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed.
