CHT provides innovative analysis and ideas for effective tech policies to policymakers, technologists, the media, and the general public. We devise policy principles and recommendations at the “sweet spot” of vibrant entrepreneurship and public good. Our work is informed by policy experts, technologists, and thought leaders as we endeavor to positively shape our digital future.
2019 | Tristan Harris testifies at Senate hearing on Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms
2020 | Tristan Harris testifies in a House hearing on Americans at Risk: Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age
2020 | Op-Ed in Financial Times, “EU should regulate Facebook and Google as 'attention utilities’”
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2021 | Tristan Harris testifies at a Senate hearing on Algorithms and Amplification: How Social Media Platforms’ Design Choices Shape Our Discourse and Our Minds
These Potential Policy Reforms describe a framework to address asymmetries of power along with specific mechanisms and examples of existing/proposed measures.
These Policy Principles provide a framework to guide the development of policy proposals both inside and outside of CHT.
This fact sheet highlights key data and studies of social media use by minors as well as associated harms.
Currently among the top Apple Podcasts in technology, CHT’s podcast Your Undivided Attention exposes how social media’s race for attention manipulates our choices, breaks down truth, and destabilizes our real-world communities — and how to fix it. Here are a few recent policy-focused episodes:
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, helps us imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies.
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin take us behind the scenes of Center for Humane Technology's January 8th testimony to the Energy and Commerce Committee on disinformation in the digital age.
Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica insider, witnessed a two-day presentation at the company that shocked her and her co-workers.
