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Family First Technology Initiative

Researching how new technologies affect families, with recommendations for how they could improve family life.

"Its social media recommendations have been adopted in at least nine states and turbocharged the national debate over protecting youth online”—Bloomberg

Researcher

Michael Toscano

Michael Toscano

Executive Director


About the Family First Technology Initiative

Over the next several years, the Family First Technology Initiative will produce original reports, develop model policies, and evaluate the effects of new technologies, like Artificial Intelligence, on American family life. 

This initiative has a received a Heritage Innovation Prize for its policy work to make kids safe online, which has resulted in more than a dozen laws around the country.

Publications on Family First Technology Initiative

Report

Unprotected From Porn

Brief

How Parenting and Self-Control Mediate the Link Between Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health

Brief

Vindication by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Brief

Model Legislation for Age Verification of Social Media


News on Technology Initiative

Perspective: The pornography industry should not be allowed this much access to our children

Perspective: The pornography industry should not be allowed this much access to our children

by Jason Carroll, Brad Wilcox, Brian Willoughby, Michael Toscano, Deseret News


Technology for the American Family

Technology for the American Family

by Jon Askonas, Michael Toscano, National Affairs


The Myth of Technological Neutrality

The Myth of Technological Neutrality

by Michael Toscano, First Things

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"A catalyst for the laws targeting online pornography and social media"-The New York Times

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