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👏 #PassKOSA now!

Sign our petition today telling your members of Congress to support the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct and protect children from
Meta & other Big Tech companies putting their well-being in danger

Sign the petition 🖊️ actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

📺Fairplay's Josh Golin was recently interviewed by CBS News! Josh told the outlet that what we really need to protect kids online is not new AI tools, but new regulation #PassKOSA

Watch the full clip➡️ www.cbsnews.com/news/balance...

Want to help families navigate screen time challenges? Join our Early Childhood Advocacy Program Director Rachel Franz on Aug 21 at 1 PM ET to discuss how screen time impacts children and learn shame-free strategies to support families.

📍Register today! bit.ly/4oxkpvV

The winner of the 2025 SBRN Practice Leadership Award is Fairplay! Congratulations and thank you, Fairplay, for your exceptional and sustained leadership in raising awareness and offering solutions to reduce and manage excessive #sedentary behavior!

Ep.64 - Josh Golin vs. Big Tech: Winning $170M for Kids’ Safety YouTube video by Dr. Johann D'Souza

🔊Our Executive Director Josh Golin tells it like it is! Listen as talks with Dr. Johann D'Souza about the harms facing children online, Big Tech’s prioritization of profits over kids, and how our advocacy is changing the landscape!

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🎧Tune into Issues & Ideas Radio where our own Haley Hinkle talks about the importance of COPPA 2.0 and how it will broaden protections for kids online! www.issuesandideasradio.com/podcasts/hal...

🆕 @time.com names us “one of the central organizations working to combat social-media addiction in kids.” Learn how our advocacy and network of activists have catalyzed the movement to get phones out of schools: time.com/7307163/pare...

Tell House and Senate leaders to pass KOSA before the year ends! Tell House and Senate leaders to pass KOSA before the year ends! With the election behind us, we only have a few weeks left to make the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) law and save children’s lives. W...

🤔You would think an organization devoted to protecting our civil liberties would have bigger fish to fry at the moment

But you keep standing in the way of children's online safety, @aclu.org. We'll keep working to #PassKOSA actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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We're grateful to @aclu.org for all their work protecting free speech, which includes their own right to lie about a bill that will protect kids from social media's dangerous & addictive design

But KOSA is not a censorship bill. And enlisting young people to spread lies is shameful

2nd chances are rare. But right now, Congress can finish the job it failed to last year and pass the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct📜

Tell your Senators and Representative to support this massively popular bill & help save kids' lives. #PassKOSA now!

✍️https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa

This month, Fairplay staff attended the Children & Screens conference in DC! We loved connecting in person, sharing phone-free schools resources, & hearing our own Josh Golin debate the question, “Should high schools ban smartphones?” (the answer is yes! ✅)

💛 Check out some highlights:

🖐️🎤 “Keeping kids safe online is a bipartisan, human, issue. It’s not political.”

🔥 Read Parents for Safe Online Spaces member Kim Osterman’s op-ed on the importance of resisting the AI state law moratorium and her call to #passKOSA. www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/for-...

As the threat of AI grows, lawmakers MUST act to protect kids online...but efforts to revive the state AI law moratorium are NOT the answer!!

We partnered with nearly 170 other orgs to explain to Congress just why not. Read the letter now! tinyurl.com/AIActionLTR

With Congress dragging its feet, should the FTC step up to rein in Big Tech and keep kids safe online? Can they? 🤔

🎯 Our own Haley Hinkle answers these questions and more in her latest interview on Marketplace. Listen now: bit.ly/3GSnZQb

Minnesota enacts first-in-nation law requiring mental health warnings on social media Supporters say the pop-up messages could encourage Minnesotans, especially kids, to think twice about how much time they spend on sites. But social media companies argue that Minnesota’s law, the firs...

⚠️“I think if Devin would have seen a warning ... that would have prompted him to acknowledge that he’s been on there too long”

ParentsSOS' Bridgette Norring remembers her late son Devin as Minnesota enacts a law requiring warning labels on social media www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

How Public Media Cuts Hurt Kids Essential education programming for children in underserved communities is threatened by the proposed elimination of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.

"It would change from media that honors kids & families to media where profit is the priority"

Our Rachel Franz speaks to The American Prospect about a potential outcome of @pbs.org losing federal funds prospect.org/culture/2025...

After leading the effort to strip the state AI law moratorium from the Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Marsha Blackburn says that until Congress passes bills like her Kids Online Safety Act "states have every right to take action to protect their residents."

Thank you, Sen. Blackburn! #PassKOSA

Fairplay's Josh Golin: Vermont First to Prevent Schools From Contacting Students on Social Media YouTube video by Lynn's Warriors

DYK Vermont is now the FIRST state in the country to ban schools from contacting students through social media? 🤩

Listen to Fairplay Executive Director - & Vermont resident - Josh Golin explain the significance of this breakthrough! 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzT0...

The case for the FTC to rein in Big Tech for online safety Haley Hinkle, policy counsel at the nonprofit Fairplay, says the Commission has existing laws given by Congress that could step in to protect kids’ online safety in lieu of an absent federal law.

🎙️The FTC has the authority --- and the responsibility --- to protect kids online in the absence of Congressional action

Our Policy Counsel Haley Hinkle explains why on @marketplace.org 📻 www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

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Woo-hoo! The proposed AI state law moratorium has been stripped from the #BigBeautifulBill!

Our thanks to Marsha Blackburn, Maria Cantwell, & the 97 other senators who voted to remove the provision. And a HUGE shoutout to ParentsSOS for their tireless work to stop the moratorium!

I lost my 16-year-old son to suicide from addictive AI algorithms. We can't let Big Tech destroy our children A mother who lost her son to suicide after harmful TikTok algorithms warns against Congress's AI moratorium that would block states from protecting children from social media dangers.

🆕 ParentsSOS member Jennie DeSerio, whose 16-year-old son Mason took his own life after TikTok's algorithm sent him horrific content urging suicide and self-harm, speaks out against the proposed state AI law moratorium in
Fox News
www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-lo...

Kelly Backs Legislation to Protect Children on Social Media, Hold Tech Companies Accountable - Senator Mark Kelly Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is cosponsoring the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, to protect kids and teens online by holding tech companies accountable for the content on their platforms and...

The #KidsOnlineSafety Act continues to gain momentum!📈

Sen. Mark Kelly says he's cosponsoring KOSA to "give parents more tools to protect their kids" and "finally hold tech companies accountable for putting profits ahead of kids’ safety" #PassKOSA

More➡️ www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

😱 A sneaky provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” would ban states from passing & enforcing their own laws to regulate AI for 10 years. It would also prevent states from enforcing laws already on the books!

This is UNACCEPTABLE! Join us & tell Congress not to ban state AI laws: bit.ly/AIstatelaws

📲Social media use PREDICTS future depression among tweens, according to a new study

Learn more from @washingtonpost.com 📰https://wapo.st/4kWP03J

A decade ago, we exposed Mattel's Hello #Barbie as a creepy surveillance doll, helping to turn its release into a dud 😑

Now, we're calling on Mattel to end its partnership with OpenAI before it harms more kids❌

Read our statement: fairplayforkids.org/statement-on...

👏Great news: Vermont's governor has signed the #KidsCode into law!

The Kids Code will require social media companies to set privacy settings by default and ban addictive features like infinite scrolling and notifications

Read the statement from @designitforus.bsky.social

It’s a stretch to call algorithm curbs a threat to free speech - The Boston Globe The Kids Online Safety Act holds platforms responsible for how they design their algorithms.

#BigTech should NOT have the right to increase ad revenue by identifying kids who are likely to feel insecure about their weight — and then sending them videos promoting the 500-calorie diet

Read our David Monahan's Letter to the Editor in @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/o...

At #MediaAndMinds25, you’ll not only hear from leading experts across disciplines - you’ll also have the chance to visit the Tools & Methodologies Exposition.

Featured exhibitors include @childmindinstitute.bsky.social, @fairplayforkids.bsky.social, & others!

🎟️ Register: bit.ly/3zOUbjH

🇺🇸Lawmakers from all 50 states are saying NO to the #AI law moratorium

Read the letter from a bipartisan group of 260 state lawmakers opposing preemption of state laws regulating AI ✍️ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

With Congress Silent, the FTC Must Protect Kids from Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press The FTC’s leadership on child online safety is now is more important than ever, and it has the power to act, Haley Hinkle and Maurine Molak write.

The FTC is holding a workshop on child online safety this week — at a time its leadership on that issue is more important than ever. In the absence of congressional movement, the FTC has the authority to take bold action to protect our kids, Haley Hinkle and Maurine Molak write.