A 2023 Gallup poll found that teens spend, on average, 20% of their day on social media platforms. Minnesota students reported in the 2025 Minnesota student survey that 1 in 5 of them is on social media between the hours of 12a.m. and 5a.m., 5 school nights a week. Clearly, these products consume the time of American youth.

Kids and teens enter into contracts with these platforms which monetize the data of the youth and consume their time. The companies are contracting with these kids without parental consent or notice.

This bill seeks to mitigate some of the aspects of the harms of social media in two steps:

1. Requiring parental consent for teens 15 and younger to have an account on social media platforms
2. If consent is given, a different experience must be given for the youth: No commercial advertising or addictive features like infinite scroll, autoplay video, or account metrics