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The Vergecast · Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Kids Act Passes House, Aims to Enhance Social Media Safeguards for Minors

The Kids Act has advanced through the House of Representatives with significant support. The legislation includes measures to bolster protections for minors on social media platforms and requires AI chatbots to disclose their non-human nature.

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And the Kids Act passed the House by a pretty wide margin, actually.
David Pierce
This is a package of bills that among other things implements safeguards for minors on social platforms and would require AI chatbots to tell you that they are in fact not human.
David Pierce
Heard on The Vergecast — “Meet The Onion's new and improved InfoWars, published Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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