Monday, August 7, 2023

Youth Social Media Act Introduced

State Representative David Steffen (R-Green Bay) has introduced Assembly Bill 373, which would set requirements that social media companies must follow when it comes to accounts held by minors. 

This would include:

  • Ensuring that all social media accounts created on or after January 1, 2019 are designated as youth accounts (unless the company determines that the account holder is not a minor) 
  • Prohibiting direct messaging between a youth account and any other account that is not linked to the youth account through "friending" or another process where two people add each other as contacts
  • Refraining from showing youth accounts in search results
  • Preventing advertising from being shown to youth accounts 
  • Refraining from using or collecting personal information from a youth account 
  • Refraining from the use of targeted or suggested groups, accounts, users, services, posts and products
  • Ensuring that youth accounts cannot be accessed between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. 
  • Providing information to a parent or guardian of the youth account so they can access the account. Parents could opt their child out of the youth account designation. 



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