Mission Statement: The LBCHT seeks to educate youth and parents on the broken social media environment in society today.

Original webinar series hosted during the Summer of 2023.

The topics for each session are:

• The Attention Economy: The economic factors and larger systems that drive tech companies to sell your attention and behavior to advertisers

• Persuasive Technology: How social media products subtly manipulate you to capture your attention and change your behavior

• Social Media & The Brain: The brain and behavioral science of how social media keeps us hooked

• Seeing The Consequences: The harms the attention economy and persuasive technology have produced, and why those harms are the result of a broken system