Do there need to be more restrictions on social media for teens? A bipartisan group of U.S. senators that includes Alabama’s Katie Britt has introduced legislation focused on the topic.
Social media algorithms, designed to capture teenage eyeballs and drive up company profits, are a danger to children and need to be brought under control, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators that includes Alabama’s Katie Britt.
The specifics of the bill, named The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, would set a minimum age of 13 to create accounts and would require parental consent for users to the age of 17. The bill would also prevent the use of algorithms to recommend content to users up to the age of 18. In a press release, the senators said between 2011 and 2019, the rate of teen depression doubled as social media rose in popularity. From 2019 to 2021, overall screen use among teens and tweens increased by 17 percent, with tweens using screens for 5½ hours per day and teens using screens for 8½ hours. Research shows that teenagers who spend more than five hours a day on social media are twice as likely to be depressed.
“The social media companies have had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing,” Murphy said. “And to make sure that the content they are delivering to our kids is healthy. They have failed to deliver.”“We do age verification routinely,” he said. “So it’s simply not a serious argument that we cannot do online age verification for social media companies just like we do in so many other settings in the digital world.
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