Safe Social Media Act

Subjects: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:  <p><b>Safe Social Media Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires a study on the use of social media platforms among individuals under age 18. A <i>social media platform</i> is a public-facing website, internet application, or mobile internet application (e.g., social network, search engine, or email service) with at least 30 million active monthly users in the United States.</p> <p>The Federal Trade Commission must coordinate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out the study, and the study must address matters such as frequency of usage, mental health effects linked to such usage, and policy recommendations.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 687 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 687

 To require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a study regarding 
                     social media use by teenagers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2023

  Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read 
     twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
                             Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a study regarding 
                     social media use by teenagers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Social Media Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT BY THE FTC ON SOCIAL MEDIA USE BY TEENAGERS.

     The Federal Trade Commission, in coordination with the Director of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall--
            (1) conduct a study on social media platform use among 
        individuals younger than age 18, including--
                    (A) what personal information is collected by 
                social media platforms regarding such individuals;
                    (B) how such personal information is used by the 
                algorithms of the social media platforms;
                    (C) how often such individuals use social media 
                platforms daily;
                    (D) differences in use of social media platforms 
                related to the age ranges of such individuals;
                    (E) mental health effects on such individuals 
                linked to the use of social media platforms; and
                    (F) potential harmful effects on such individuals 
                from extended social media platform use; and
            (2) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, submit to Congress a report on the findings of the 
        study under paragraph (1), including any recommended policy 
        changes based on such findings.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM.

    In this Act, the term ``social media platform'' means a public-
facing website, internet application, or mobile internet application, 
including a social network, video sharing service, ad network, mobile 
operating system, search engine, email service, or internet access 
service, that has not less than 30,000,000 active monthly users in the 
United States.
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