Social Media Warning Label Laws Catching on in States
Though Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon Normal Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up laws requiring social media platforms to hold warning labels indicating that social media could also be dangerous to the psychological well being of younger folks, state lawmakers have taken up that trigger.
A invoice (HB 499) handed by the Texas Home on the finish of April would require platforms with over 50 million lively month-to-month customers to show such a warning message and disaster contact data each time customers entry the platforms.
A pair of Meeting committees in California have superior a invoice (AB 56) that may require a “black field” warning stating that “social media is related to vital psychological well being harms and has not been confirmed secure for younger customers” to seem on a person’s display after three hours of steady use and hourly thereafter.
Companion measures (HB 1289 and SB 1807) in Minnesota would require such warning notifications each half-hour. However neither invoice has superior out of committee but.
Laws in New York (AB 5346 and SB 4505) would require warning labels on social media platforms that present “an addictive feed, push notifications, autoplay, infinite scroll, and/or like counts.” The measures are sponsored by the identical two lawmakers behind the passage of the state’s first-in-the-nation laws final yr requiring minors to obtain chronological feeds by default.
Vermont Rep. Angela Arsenault (D) has additionally indicated that she intends to introduce a social media warning label invoice in 2026. (PLURIBUS NEWS,LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Energy-Hungry Information Facilities Draw Consideration of State Lawmakers
With energy-hungry synthetic intelligence purposes driving up electrical energy demand at information facilities, at the least 11 states have launched laws this yr to manage such services, together with requiring them to reveal information about their energy utilization and pay particular energy charges to maintain prices down for residential prospects. Three of the states—Indiana (HB 1007), Maryland (HB 270) and Virginia (HB 1601)—have handed such measures, the primary of which was signed into regulation by Gov. Mike Braun (R), whereas the Virginia invoice was vetoed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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