The mental-health crisis facing America's teenagers is motivating a bipartisan group of U.S. senators to join forces, on legislation that limits access to social media platforms and restricts the kind of content pushed out to kids.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala., Sen, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Sen, Chris Murphy, D-Conn. are pushing a new bipartisan bill focused on online safety for kids.
“As I talk to other moms who are trying to deal with this, it tells you the troubling uncertainty that social media brings into children’s lives,” she said, adding: “Parents wanted tools to be able to talk to their children — and to keep their children safe.” Murphy, a father of two sons, said he saw benefits for his own kids connecting online during the pandemic. But he added, “I’ve also seen the flip side: I’ve seen amongst my kids’ peers how very quickly these algorithms can drive you to dangerous content. … It doesn’t take more than, you know, a few swipes, a lingering eyeball on a harmful video to get more and more and more of that.”
He said their business model was to make kids linger: “And they have determined that the way you get a kid to linger on a post or on a social media platform is to upset them, and so their business model is to systematically upset a generation of children for profit.” Another key provision of the bill is requiring age verification before kids can create accounts — and setting up a system for parents to approve their kids signing up.
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