Team,

You’ve seen it: for years, Big Tech has mined our data, surveilled our every move, and used our insecurities to sell products. For all of these invasions of privacy and safety, they’ve felt very few consequences.

Young people are fighting back. We've grown up in a digital world that has endlessly profited from taking advantage of us, but the truth is that the status quo is no longer working. We’re building a lasting movement for a better future on and offline.

We know that we’re up against a lot. We’re seeing AI take our jobs in real time and our peers become addicted to chatbots. Tech giants are getting away with selling us out every time — along with our information, environment, wellbeing, privacy, and safety. It’s not just one thing – Big Tech has influence over many aspects of our daily lives. It’s why this work is so urgent, and why we’re so grateful to have people like you with us. The reality is this: we are going up against billion-dollar corporations with elite legal teams and lobbyists looking to sway policy in their favor and destroy meaningful regulation.

If we want to win a better future, we need resources. Resources for:

🔍 Research, like our groundbreaking Instagram Teen Accounts expose that highlighted their unsafe security features [1]

📝 Advocacy, like getting the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code passed [2]

🪧 Mobilization, like our new State Leadership Initiative, created to give young people the tools to make change directly in their communities [3]

These are just a few of the ways we are working to design a safer world, and we’ve got a long way to go.  

We wish we never had to ask for donations. But in order to demand actual change from the biggest powerhouses in the world, we need your help.

Consider counting us as one of the causes you’ll support in this season of giving. Help us fuel our work, fight back against Big Tech, and build the safer world we’ve dreamed of together by chipping in any amount now.

DONATE TODAY

Thank you for being a part of our movement.

In solidarity,

Zamaan, Atiya, Alison, and the entire DIFU Leadership Team

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Sources:

1. The Washington Post: Gen Z users and a dad tested Instagram Teen Accounts. Their feeds were shocking

2. Design It For Us: Design It For Us Applauds Signing of the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code into Law

3. Design It For Us: We’re mobilizing in California

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