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A proposed U.S. federal law requiring social media platforms to adopt safety-by-design features and a duty of care protecting minors online.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Blackburn and Blumenthal cite a sealed 2023 document showing TikTok withheld an anti-echo-chamber safeguard from 10% of US users, and they want a list of every other such test.
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The deal binds only Meta, yet it puts hard numbers on age signals, notification defaults and overnight lockouts, and Meta collects about $5.3 billion less if TikTok and YouTube decline to match them.
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New Mexico won about $942 million and a ban on romantic AI chatbot contact with minors in court. The 51-state deal pays up to $18 billion and, its own attorney general says, leaves that term out.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal want a list of every TikTok experiment that held back a safety feature. That request, not the letter's adjectives, is the part product teams should read.
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Three hundred million dollars moves now. The last hundred million is released only when a court vacates the 2019 order that was supposed to stop the conduct in the first place.
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The proof hides a birthdate from the website. It does not remove the entity that established the birthdate, issues a token at every login, and can be told to stop.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal want answers by September 1 on a control group of about 10% of users, including minors, that did not get an anti-rabbit-hole algorithm change.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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Raul Torrez is drafting bills that would remove penalty caps and extend liability to AI chatbots, one day before 29 attorneys general opened against Meta in Oakland. States are setting the floor.
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