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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

Teens and Tech: What Difference Does Family Structure Make?

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

The Myth of Technological Neutrality

The Myth of Technological Neutrality

by Michael Toscano, First Things


The Kids Online Safety Act was a good start, but app stores need accountability too

The Kids Online Safety Act was a good start, but app stores need accountability too

by Michael Toscano, Clare Morell and Adam Candeub


Scrolling Alone: Smartphones and Social Atomization

Scrolling Alone: Smartphones and Social Atomization

by Michael Toscano, American Affairs

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

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