Foreign adversaries, like China and Russia, continue to use the online information environment to spread propaganda and attempt to divide the American people and undermine our democratic system. Algorithms focused on maximizing attention — and profit — push viewers to more extreme content that can radicalize them and be exploited by terrorist organizations.
Learn more about our work to acknowledge the impact of social media on our national security and efforts to create a safer online environment that safeguards our democracy.
Social media companies remain largely unchecked and free of any liability from the harm they cause...
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Following today’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on threats facing U.S. elections, with testimony from Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft executives on their efforts to combat foreign malign influence operations during the…
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In response to last night’s bipartisan vote in the Senate and President Biden’s signing of the bill that could lead to a ban of TikTok in the U.S., Issue One’s…
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In response to today’s bipartisan vote in the House that could lead to a ban of TikTok in the U.S., Issue One’s CEO and Founder Nick Penniman issued the following…
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Social media platforms are designed to maximize our attention, suck us in, and keep us hooked. They do this by keeping the public in the dark about how algorithms elevate…
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Social media companies remain largely unchecked and free of any liability from the harm they cause...
Today Issue One and its Council for Responsible Social Media (CRSM) released “Dangerous by Design,” a new report underscoring the widespread and ongoing threats and harms that social media companies…
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How Social Media Companies Are Hurting Our Kids, National Security, and Democracy — and What We Can Do About It...
Editor’s note: The following is the executive summary of “Dangerous by Design.” Read the full report. Introduction Americans of all political persuasions are right to be concerned about unchecked social…
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Over the last two years, Congress has banned TikTok on government devices, Montana’s state government has banned the app within its borders, and some members of Congress have proposed a…
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Today, Issue One and its Council for Responsible Social Media are calling on Congress to holistically address the social media crisis by enacting responsible safeguards and setting the same government…
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The tabletop exercise brings together Congress and leading experts to respond to potential national security threats posed by social media and AI...
Today, members of Congress from both parties came together to consider solutions to pressing national security challenges in a fast-moving and evolving information environment. The members analyzed a geopolitical crisis…
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The evolution of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced new and increasingly accessible tools that will define the information ecosystem in which the 2024 election takes place. On June 28th,…
