A standard of care
A practical map of platform harms and the product choices that can prevent or reduce them, giving policymakers, investors, researchers, and civil society a shared basis for action.
Frances Haugen's nonprofit
Social media can serve the common good.
Beyond the Screen brings technical expertise and insider experience to the growing ecosystem of checks and balances needed to make social platforms safer, more transparent, and more accountable.
Social platforms shape childhood, democracy, public health, and the information environment. The people affected by those systems deserve enough visibility to understand what is happening and enough leverage to change it.
Previous projects
Foundational work from Beyond the Screen
Minimum viable queries
A data-access standard for the questions the public and independent researchers must be able to ask in order to evaluate platform risks and progress.
Simulated social network
A tool for testing how design choices influence online dynamics, helping people see how platform harms emerge and how different interventions can change outcomes.
Why now
The public cannot govern systems it cannot inspect.
For years, platforms have controlled the data, definitions, and narratives around their own harms. That information imbalance keeps experts, regulators, parents, investors, and communities from making grounded decisions.
Beyond the Screen focuses on the infrastructure for accountability: shared technical context, credible data access, and concrete safety expectations that make better platforms possible.
Ecosystem
Built for people who need leverage
01
Researchers
Clearer access to the data needed to test claims, compare platforms, and identify the interventions that work.
02
Policymakers
More precise standards and evidence for regulation that targets product design and measurable outcomes.
03
Families and communities
Language and tools for demanding safer digital environments without accepting vague promises from platforms.
04
Investors and civil society
Shared accountability benchmarks that can turn concern into pressure, governance, and durable change.
This is just the beginning
Help build social platforms we can trust.
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