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 can change everything​.

At the CTRL Foundation, our mission is to fund platform development that upholds our values. 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 are dedicated to unlocking potential.


— What does CTRL stand for?

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

— The deeper meaning…

Our digital tools have taken away control from our lives. We believe we must create options that give control back to users and take it away from platforms that are designed to extract profit from people regardless of the social costs.

— Why is the website ctrl-y?

The keyboard shortcut for redo is ctrl–y. We’re redoing social media—but we’re doing it right this time. Curious? Visit our About Us page to learn more.

The toll of social media isn’t accidental.
It was designed that way.

As platforms chase engagement at all costs, young people suffer record levels of anxiety and depression, knowledge becomes 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

Hop aboard our brain train.

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

About Us

We exist to build something new—something that treats communication not as content, but as connection.

The Vision

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

Our Mission

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

We need a platform that creates a new paradigm for digital expression, one that better aligns with how humans naturally think and communicate.