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The bill prioritizes child safety and privacy by restricting under-13 accounts, limiting algorithmic recommendations, and increasing federal oversight and school compliance, but it creates meaningful costs, legal uncertainty, and implementation burdens for platforms, schools, and some communities that could shift costs or drive risky workarounds.
Children under 13 and teens: under-13 accounts would be blocked and platforms would be required to limit personalized recommendations, reducing exposure to targeted content and potentially lowering algorithmic amplification of harmful or addictive material (including reduced exposure during school hours when schools enforce blocks).
Parents and families: platforms must delete children’s personal data and limit use of that data for recommendations, strengthening privacy protections for minors.
Schools and students: schools that certify compliance can continue receiving E-Rate support and have a waiver path if procurement rules delay implementation, allowing schools to maintain connectivity funding while meeting new safety rules.
Platforms and advertisers: complying with account bans, data-deletion requirements, recommendation limits, and enforcement exposure will raise development, compliance, and legal costs that may be passed on to consumers or advertisers and could affect small online businesses.
Children and parents: blocking under-13 accounts may push some children to use adult accounts or seek third-party verification workarounds, potentially exposing them to greater online risk and complicating enforcement.
Schools and taxpayers: schools that cannot or do not certify risk losing E-Rate discounts and may be required to reimburse prior funds, increasing costs for affected districts and local taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Bars personalized recommendations for children under 13 and restricts E-Rate funding for school access to social media unless schools certify and enforce blocking and submit internet-safety policies.
Prohibits social media platforms from using personalized recommendation systems for children under age 13 by creating new definitions and enforcement hooks for the Federal Trade Commission. Conditions federal E-Rate discounts for K–12 schools on school certification that students cannot access social media on supported networks or devices, and requires schools to submit internet-safety policies to the FCC for publication. The bill defines key terms (child, social media platform, personalized recommendation system, personal data), carves out many service exclusions from the definition of social media platform, requires the FCC to adopt rules and enforce certification timelines, and includes a standard severability clause.
Introduced February 5, 2026 by Anna Luna · Last progress February 5, 2026