Briefing: protecting children and young people from addictive design
Research has shown the deep harm excessive social media use can do to young brains and bodies. The EU Commission must tackle the root cause.
Beyond Big Tech: A manifesto for a new digital economy
70+ orgs back bold vision for a better, fairer digital world and call on states to invest for the public good
Civil society groups call for safe and quality-driven recommender systems to safeguard the 2024 EU Elections
More than a dozen civil society groups in Europe submit joint response to EU Commission guidelines, calling for tougher measures to protect democracy
Letter to European Commissioner Breton: Tackling harmful recommender systems
Civil society organisations unite behind Coimisiún na Meán’s proposal to disable profiling-based recommender systems on social media video platforms
Open letter to the European Parliament: A critical opportunity to protect children and young people
Dear Members of the European Parliament, We, experts, academics and civil society groups, are writing to express our profound alarm at the social-media driven
Prototyping User Empowerment – Towards DSA-compliant recommender systems
What would a healthy social network look like? Researchers, civil society experts, technologists and designers came together to imagine a new way forward
ESC Big Tech this Black Friday
People vs Big Tech has joined forces with high street brand Lush to raise money for our work to rein in the harmful power of the Big Tech corporations
"We call for a world in which no small group
of billionaires can tweak an algorithm and change the fate of billions without constraints or fear
of consequence.''