Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED)

This fact sheet highlights how social media platforms generate billions in advertising revenue from youth while facing little transparency or accountability, creating strong financial incentives to prioritize engagement over safety and underscoring the need for regulatory intervention.

This roadmap provides a comprehensive, state-level policy strategy to hold social media platforms accountable by requiring independent algorithm risk audits, increasing transparency, and addressing the public health harms of platform design on youth.

This fact sheet outlines the legal rationale for requiring independent third-party audits of social media algorithms, arguing that such audits are a viable and necessary mechanism to increase transparency, mitigate harms to youth, and hold platforms accountable within existing regulatory frameworks.

This model legislation provides a state-level framework to require independent third-party audits of social media algorithms, mandate transparency reporting, and enable regulatory enforcement to identify, measure, and reduce design-related harms to youth.

A collection of news reports documenting the harms of social media on youth.

This fact sheet summarizes scientific evidence linking social media design and algorithms to worsening youth mental health, highlighting developmental vulnerabilities in adolescents and making the case that independent third-party audits are necessary safeguards to reduce harm and improve platform accountability.

A body of research evidence examining the harms of social media on youth.

This judicial primer provides an accessible overview of how algorithmic systems and platform design shape online experiences and contribute to digital harms, equipping judges with the legal, technical, and public health context needed to evaluate emerging claims involving social media and algorithmic accountability.

This video series presents a policy roadmap to address social media–related harms to youth, integrating public health evidence with legal and economic strategies and highlighting independent algorithm audits as a key tool for accountability.