Safe Social Media Act

Bill: 118-hr-4826
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Bentz, Cliff [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2023-07-24
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Child safety and welfare

Congressional oversight

Internet, web applications, social media
Latest action: action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-07-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <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>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4826 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 24, 2023 Mr. Bentz (for himself, Ms. Mace , Mr. Baird , and Mr. Santos ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a study regarding social media use by teenagers.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Social Media Act . 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. 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.