New York Passes Bill Banning Social Media Algorithms for Children

New York’s Legislature passed a bill that would ban social media platforms from using "addictive" recommendation algorithms for child users. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids act will prohibit social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram from serving content to users under the age of 18 based on recommendation algorithms, meaning that, instead, social media companies will have to provide reverse-chronological feeds for child users.