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New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids

The New York state legislation will ban social media platforms from algorithmically recommending content to children.

Kathy Hochul in Syracuse, N.Y., on April 25.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images fileNetChoice, a trade group that represents major tech and social media companies like Google, Meta and TikTok, has challengedmultiplestate laws in the past two years claiming violations of the First Amendment. Greer also said that commercial age-verification methods, which would likely be required to enforce the law, further threaten the privacy of social media users and could pose a danger to civil liberties and anonymity online. “When one state passes a law that incentivizes companies to move in this direction of engaging in invasive age verification, which is incompatible with anonymity, that actually creates real human rights concerns globally,” Greer said.

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