On Tuesday, June 10th, youth-led advocacy organizations Design It For Us and Encode hosted a rally in support of tech legislation in the New York State Capitol. Young people from across the state gathered with lawmakers, united by a shared call to pass legislation designed to protect against the harms of social media and AI.
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Design It for Us, a youth-led coalition that advocates for AADC bills, urged Scott to sign the bill.
Neb., Vt. pass Kids Code bills to regulate online platforms for minors
Groups like Common Sense Media, Design It For Us, Mothers Against Media Addiction and the Tech Oversight Project have spearheaded the effort under the umbrella of the Kids Code Coalition.
Meta’s panic about ‘groomers’ targeting minors on Instagram surfaces at FTC antitrust trial
“Meta’s persistent failure to protect young people from predators on Instagram reveals deep and dangerous flaws in its platform, one that stems from the unchecked power it holds as a social media monopoly,” said Zamaan Qureshi, co-chair on the online safety watchdog Design It For Us.
Instagram Teen Accounts still exposed to sexual content, investigation finds
According to an investigation conducted by the youth-led nonprofit Design It For Us and watchdog Accountable Tech — later corroborated by Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler — the platform continues to surface age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, and generally harmful content despite content control safeguards.
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Both Pickarski and Cherry worked collaboratively on the event with the group Design It For Us, a youth-led coalition advocating for safer social media and online platforms for kids, teens, and young adults.
Instagram investigation finds sexual content is served to Teen Accounts
In an investigation by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us, Instagram was found serving sexualized, racist, and harmful content to protected Teen accounts.
Gen Z users tested Instagram Teen Accounts; they got sex posts, body shaming
Four more Gen Z testers, part of a youth organization called Design It For Us, did the same experiment, and all got recommended sexual content. Four of the five got body image and disordered eating content, too, such as a video of a woman saying “skinny is a lifestyle, not a phase.”
Hinsdale native’s youth online safety coalition works with parents, others to push for accountability from social media giants
Zamaan Qureshi, co-chair of Design It For Us, said young people must speak out about social media harms so that authority figures can facilitate change.
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The company has failed to protect my generation online, and that’s because it has gotten too big to care.