Cruz Pushes Youth Online Safety Bill Crowded by More Options (1)

Sen. Ted Cruz is moving ahead with legislation intended to protect young children from social media harms, yet resistance and competing proposals on Capitol Hill signal a difficult path to passage.

The Kids Off Social Media Act, or KOSMA (S. 278), was the focus of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. The bipartisan bill would ban kids under 13 from accessing social media accounts and require tech companies to delete existing accounts of young children, among other provisions.

The measure, sponsored by the Texas Republican and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), is one of the stricter and more contentious ...