Requires online platforms, video games, and video streaming services used by minors to give young users and parents safety controls, limit design features that encourage compulsive use, and address certain harms to minors.

• Requires covered platforms to exercise reasonable care to prevent and mitigate harms to minors, including eating disorders, sexual exploitation, and financial harms from unfair or deceptive practices
• Requires default safeguards for users known to be minors, parental tools for children under 13, and a reporting mechanism with response deadlines
• Bars platforms from advertising narcotic drugs, cannabis, tobacco, gambling, or alcohol to users they know are minors and from market research on children without parental consent
• Enforced by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, and directs a Commerce Department study on device-level age verification

• Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Senate)

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