The CTRL Foundation

The CTRL Foundation promotes technology that fosters liberty by empowering users to take ConTRoL of their online experience. We support platform use and development that encourages positive benefits from online interaction while prioritizing mental health over engagement or profits.

Our mission is to facilitate the sharing of information that elevates the human experience, disseminates useful knowledge, and incentivizes creators to reap the economic rewards of their creativity. We aim to support individuals, businesses, and the economies of local regions worldwide to maximize the value of information shared online, which will increase the opportunity of everyone to reach their full potential.

It’s time for a change

No more antisocial media.

The right approach will change everything​.

We fund platform development that gives you back control of your digital creations. We also support the creation of educational resources to make technology users—especially young users—aware of the way using technology effects their emotional experience and the development of their brain.

We unlock your potential.

The official name of our organization is the Center for Technology to Restore Liberty, aka, the CTRL Foundation.

— What does CTRL mean to you?

We must create digital tools that give control back to users and take it away from companies that extract profit from people regardless of the social costs.

— How have you lost control?

The keyboard shortcut for redo is ctrl–y. We’re redoing social media—but we’re doing it the right way this time.

— Are you ready for a REDO?

Social media was designed to take away your control. Its effects aren’t accidental.

Platforms chase engagement at all costs. The result: Record levels of anxiety and depression, knowledge is siloed, and creativity is reduced to performative likes.

Our kids are the least flourishing generation we know of. 50 percent of American teens say they’re online almost constantly. So half of our kids’ consciousnesses, their lives, are owned by a few big social media companies.
Johnathan Haidt
Social Psychologist
When the dopamine reward system gets hijacked, it can compel you to repeat self-destructive behaviors, like spending hours every day on apps even when they make you unhappy, unsatisfied, and unfulfilled.
Max Fisher
Author, The Chaos Machine
The new era is killing us softly, by drawing people out of the real and into the virtual, distracting us from the activities that sustain ordinary life, and finally making existence at a human scale seem obsolete.
Ross Douthat
NYTimes Columnist
Social media algorithms see us, simply, as an attention mine. They are designed to hack our brains and manipulate our emotions. They look for the weakest spots in our minds — hate, fear, greed..
Yuval Noah Harari
Philosopher

We’re going to reroute the future of social technology toward human flourishing by developing a platform that fosters creativity, knowledge, community, and human dignity.

Are you on board?

About Us

We exist to build something that treats your creativity not as content, but as connection.

The Vision

The problem with social media isn’t just what it does to you — it’s what it fails to let you do.

Our Mission

Social media was never designed to make you flourish. It was designed to make you scroll. It’s time for a REDO.