College students Emma Lembke and Aliza Kopans think lawmakers should hold social media companies accountable — and they need youth voices to do it.
Kopans also arrived at the initiative from her own negative experience online. After years of pushing her parents to allow her to join social media, they relented when she was in 8th grade. Kopans said she soon found herself mindlessly scrolling Instagram, pouring through images of her friends' supposedly perfect lives and reading the positive comments she was not receiving on her own posts.
Kopans and Lembke now film other young people sharing stories like theirs, then send the footage to lawmakers around the country. They hope to influence elected officials to enact legislation that regulates how social media companies design for teen users. . It asked tech companies to redesign how teens experience their platforms, including by ending targeted ads and disabling autoplay by default.
Kopans and Lembke said voices like theirs are vital for regulating today's social media. Politicians of older generations, they said, cannot understand the struggles of a generation of digital natives. The pair also insisted they are not trying to stifle innovation. Instead, they are asking tech companies to build technologies with their users' best interest in mind.
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