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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.
