S.3164

Protecting children from addictive social media feeds

Introduced·7/2/26
Introduced Text

Massachusetts S3164 aims to protect minors from addictive social media feeds by setting default safety settings for their accounts.

Massachusetts S3164 introduces measures to safeguard minors from potentially addictive social media feeds. It mandates that social media platforms enable default safety settings for minors' accounts, including restricting content visibility, disabling autoplay and infinite scroll features, and limiting direct messaging and geolocation data sharing. The attorney general is tasked with creating regulations to identify age assurance methods and requires platforms to report data on minors' usage.

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History

Jul 9

Senate

Amendment #2 (Payano) adopted

Jul 9

Senate

Amendment #5 (Keenan) rejected

Jul 9

Senate

Amendment #6 (Keenan) adopted