Social media platforms letting down autistic users, new research shows

Create more powerful tools to engage in interest-based sociality and to establish connections based upon mutual interests
Create more sophisticated filters to remove upsetting, impolite, negative, and confrontational content
Create more explicit and conspicuous tools for setting the visibility and availability of profile information and user-generated content, and provide more granular control over who can view and respond to that content
Enable further configuration and customization options for algorithmic content feeds
Create multi-modal tools that support autistic adults with understanding tone and meaning in content created by other users, and tools which support exploratory self-understanding of the tone of their own content prior to sharing within a network.
Create tools that support autistic adults to manage their time on social media, and avoid over engagement