mine the protections for minors from the safeguards 
or parental tools imposed under subsections (a) and 
(b). 
SEC. 104. DISCLOSURE. 
(a) NOTICE.— 
(1) REGISTRATION
OR
PURCHASE.—Prior to 
registration or purchase of a covered platform by an 
individual that the platform knows is a minor, the 
platform shall provide clear, conspicuous, and easy- 
to-understand— 
(A) notice of the policies and practices of 
the covered platform with respect to safeguards 
for minors; 
(B) information about how to access the 
safeguards and parental tools required under 
section 103; and 
(C) notice about whether the covered plat-
form uses or makes available to minors a prod-
uct, service, or design feature, including any 
personalized 
recommendation 
system, 
that 
poses any heightened risk of harm to minors. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.— 
(A) NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT.—In 
the case of an individual that a covered plat-
form knows is a child, the platform shall addi-
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tionally provide information about the parental 
tools and safeguards required under section 103 
to a parent of the child and obtain verifiable 
parental consent (as defined in section 1302(9) 
of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act 
(15 U.S.C. 6501(9))) from the parent prior to 
the initial use of the covered platform by the 
child. 
(B) REASONABLE
EFFORT.—A covered 
platform shall be deemed to have satisfied the 
requirement described in subparagraph (A) if 
the covered platform is in compliance with the 
requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy 
Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) to use 
reasonable efforts (taking into consideration 
available technology) to provide a parent with 
the information described in subparagraph (A) 
and to obtain verifiable parental consent as re-
quired. 
(3) CONSOLIDATED NOTICES.—For purposes of 
this Act, a covered platform may consolidate the 
process for providing information under this sub-
section and obtaining verifiable parental consent or 
the consent of the minor involved (as applicable) as 
required under this subsection with its obligations to 
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provide relevant notice and obtain verifiable consent 
under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act 
(15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.). 
(4) GUIDANCE.—The Federal Trade Commis-
sion may issue guidance to assist covered platforms 
in complying with the specific notice requirements of 
this subsection. 
(b) PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM.—A 
covered platform that operates a personalized rec-
ommendation system shall set out in its terms and condi-
tions, in a clear, conspicuous, and easy-to-understand 
manner— 
(1) an overview of how such personalized rec-
ommendation system is used by the covered platform 
to provide information to minors; and 
(2) information about options for minors or 
their parents to opt out of or control the personal-
ized recommendation system (as applicable). 
(c) RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND MINORS.—A cov-
ered platform shall provide to minors and parents clear, 
conspicuous, easy-to-understand, and comprehensive infor-
mation in a prominent location, which may include a link 
to a web page, regarding— 
(1) its policies and practices with respect to 
safeguards for minors; and 
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(2) how to access the safeguards and tools re-
quired under section 103. 
(d) RESOURCES
IN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES.—A 
covered platform shall ensure, to the extent practicable, 
that the disclosures required by this section are made 
available in the same language, form, and manner as the 
covered platform provides any product or service used by 
minors and their parents. 
SEC. 105. TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), not less 
frequently than once a year, a covered platform shall issue 
a public report describing the reasonably foreseeable risks 
of harms to minors and assessing the prevention and miti-
gation measures taken to address such risk based on an 
independent, third-party audit conducted through reason-
able inspection of the covered platform. 
(b) SCOPE OF APPLICATION.—The requirements of 
this section shall apply to a covered platform if— 
(1) for the most recent calendar year, the plat-
form averaged more than 10,000,000 active users on 
a monthly basis in the United States; and 
(2) the platform predominantly provides a com-
munity forum for user-generated content and discus-
sion, including sharing videos, images, games, audio 
files, discussion in a virtual setting, or other content, 
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such as acting as a social media platform, virtual re-
ality environment, or a social network service. 
(c) CONTENT.— 
(1) TRANSPARENCY.—The public reports re-
quired of a covered platform under this section shall 
include— 
(A) an assessment of the extent to which 
the platform is likely to be accessed by minors; 
(B) a description of the commercial inter-
ests of the covered platform in use by minors; 
(C) an accounting, based on the data held 
by the covered platform, of— 
(i) the number of users using the cov-
ered platform that the platform knows to 
be minors in the United States; 
(ii) the median and mean amounts of 
time spent on the platform by users known 
to be minors in the United States who 
have accessed the platform during the re-
porting year on a daily, weekly, and 
monthly basis; and 
(iii) the amount of content being 
accessed by users that the platform knows 
to be minors in the United States that is 
in English, and the top 5 non-English lan-
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guages used by users accessing the plat-
form in the United States; 
(D) an accounting of total reports received 
regarding, and the prevalence (which can be 
based on scientifically valid sampling methods 
using the content available to the covered plat-
form in the normal course of business) of con-
tent related to, the harms described in section 
102(a), disaggregated by category of harm and 
language, including English and the top 5 non- 
English languages used by users accessing the 
platform from the United States (as identified 
under subparagraph (C)(iii)); and 
(E) a description of any material breaches 
of parental tools or assurances regarding mi-
nors, and other matters regarding non-compli-
ance with this Act. 
(2) REASONABLY FORESEEABLE RISK OF HARM 
TO MINORS.—The public reports required of a cov-
ered platform under this section shall include— 
(A) an assessment of the reasonably fore-
seeable risk of harms to minors posed by the 
covered platform, specifically identifying those 
physical, mental, developmental, or financial 
harms described in section 102(a); 
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(3) MITIGATION.—The public reports required 
of a covered platform under this section shall in-
clude, for English and the top 5 non-English lan-
guages used by users accessing the platform from 
the United States (as identified under paragraph 
(2)(C)(iii))— 
(A) a description of the safeguards and pa-
rental tools available to minors and parents on 
the covered platform; 
(B) a description of interventions by the 
covered platform when it had or has reason to 
believe that harms to minors could occur; 
(C) a description of the prevention and 
mitigation measures intended to be taken in re-
sponse to the known and emerging risks identi-
fied in its assessment of reasonably foreseeable 
risks of harms to minors, including steps taken 
to— 
(i) prevent harms to minors, including 
adapting or removing design features or 
addressing through parental tools; 
(ii) provide the most protective level of 
control over safety by default; and 
(iii) adapt recommendation systems to 
mitigate reasonably foreseeable risk of 
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harms to minors, as described in section 
102(a); 
(D) a description of internal processes for 
handling reports and automated detection 
mechanisms for harms to minors, including the 
rate, timeliness, and effectiveness of responses 
under the requirement of section 103(c); 
(E) the status of implementing prevention 
and mitigation measures identified in prior as-
sessments; and 
(F) a description of the additional meas-
ures to be taken by the covered platform to ad-
dress the circumvention of safeguards for mi-
nors and parental tools. 
(d) REASONABLE INSPECTION.—In conducting an in-
spection of the reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to mi-
nors under this section, an independent, third-party audi-
tor shall— 
(1) take into consideration the function of per-
sonalized recommendation systems; 
(2) consult parents and youth experts, including 
youth and families with relevant past or current ex-
perience, public health and mental health nonprofit 
organizations, health and development organizations, 
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and civil society with respect to the prevention of 
harms to minors; 
(3) conduct research based on experiences of 
minors that use the covered platform, including re-
ports under section 103(c) and information provided 
by law enforcement; 
(4) take account of research, including research 
regarding design features, marketing, or product in-
tegrity, industry best practices, or outside research; 
(5) consider indicia or inferences of age of 
users, in addition to any self-declared information 
about the age of users; and 
(6) take into consideration differences in risk of 
reasonably foreseeable harms and effectiveness of 
safeguards across English and non-English lan-
guages. 
(e) COOPERATION WITH INDEPENDENT, THIRD- 
PARTY AUDIT.—To facilitate the report required by sub-
section (c), a covered platform shall— 
(1) provide or otherwise make available to the 
independent third-party conducting the audit all in-
formation and material in its possession, custody, or 
control that is relevant to the audit; 
(2) provide or otherwise make available to the 
independent third-party conducting the audit access 
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to all network, systems, and assets relevant to the 
audit; and 
(3) disclose all relevant facts to the independent 
third-party conducting the audit, and not misrepre-
sent in any manner, expressly or by implication, any 
relevant fact. 
(f) PRIVACY SAFEGUARDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In issuing the public reports 
required under this section, a covered platform shall 
take steps to safeguard the privacy of its users, in-
cluding ensuring that data is presented in a de-iden-
tified, aggregated format such that it is not reason-
ably linkable to any user. 
(2) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—This section 
shall not be construed to require the disclosure of in-
formation that will lead to material vulnerabilities 
for the privacy of users or the security of a covered 
platform’s service or create a significant risk of the 
violation of Federal or State law. 
(3) DEFINITION OF DE-IDENTIFIED.—As used 
in this subsection, the term ‘‘de-identified’’ means 
data that does not identify and is not linked or rea-
sonably linkable to a device that is linked or reason-
ably linkable to an individual, regardless of whether 
the information is aggregated. 
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(g) LOCATION.—The public reports required under 
this section should be posted by a covered platform on an 
easy to find location on a publicly available website. 
SEC. 106. RESEARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND MINORS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(2) NATIONAL ACADEMY.—The term ‘‘National 
Academy’’ means the National Academy of Sciences. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
(b) RESEARCH
ON SOCIAL MEDIA HARMS.—Not 
later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Commission shall seek to enter into a contract 
with the National Academy, under which the National 
Academy shall conduct no less than 5 scientific, com-
prehensive studies and reports on the risk of harms to mi-
nors by use of social media and other online platforms, 
including in English and non-English languages. 
(c) MATTERS TO BE ADDRESSED.—In contracting 
with the National Academy, the Commission, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary, shall seek to commission separate 
studies and reports, using the Commission’s authority 
under section 6(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
(15 U.S.C. 46(b)), on the relationship between social 
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