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How can regulators protect users from gamified investing in Canada?

How can employers be encouraged to advertise more jobs as flexible?

Platform-level interventions to reduce the spread of misinformation & hateful content online

In the wake of the UK’s recent riots, social media platforms are under fire for perpetuating misinformation, disinformation, and hateful content. This note outlines behavioural factors that point to the need for platform and system-wide interventions to combat misinformation.  Underpinning this note is analysis from a survey of 2,000+ UK…

Review of Online Choice Architecture and Vulnerability

Commissioned by Citizens Advice, this report explores how online choices architecture disproportionately harm vulnerable consumers, recommending this architecture and vulnerability should be addressed together to protect consumers.

Do mobile phone bans in schools really work?

The evidence isn't cut and dry, so how can schools balance building focus and concentration with the reality of young people's digital social lives?

“Together for a safer internet”: how and why we should put children and young people at the heart of designing future internet policy

Today is Safer Internet Day, raising awareness globally of a safer and better internet for all, especially for children and young people. Lis Costa, Managing Director of BIT UK, considers how we might make this year’s theme of “Together for a safer internet” a meaningful reality. 

Fighting online scams in France

Every year, 780 000 people in France buy a product or service that is not delivered, does not meet expected quality standards, or leads to hidden costs. Most of these scams occur in online retail environments, where fraudsters use malicious ‘dark patterns’ to encourage impulsive purchases. BIT partnered with the…

Designing a One-Stop Shop on Child Online Safety for businesses

In a 12-month research project for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, we conducted a survey, interviews, workshops and a literature review to explore the behavioural barriers that currently prevent businesses from accessing online information about their child online safety responsibilities. Businesses report the need for a single,…

The behavioural science of online harm and manipulation, and what to do about it

An exploratory paper to spark ideas and debate