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Biden to sign new bipartisan law targeting child 'sextortion' online

Jordan DeMay, a 17-year-old who died by suicide in 2022, is one of a growing number of teens targeted by financial sextortion. His mother hopes the new law will help other parents.

“It is monumental and also completely unanimous,” Blackburn told NBC News in an exclusive joint interview alongside Ossoff in the Capitol on Wednesday. The bill is the first major piece of legislation that would put enforcement and accountability mechanisms on social media platforms in years, according to the senators. Buta said the bill, along with others under consideration by Congress like the Kids Online Safety Act, could have helped save her son before it was too late.

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