New York is inching closer to fully enacting a 2024 law meant to protect kids online by restricting their access to addictive algorithmic feeds and nighttime social media notifications. On Monday, over a year after her office first began accepting comments, state Attorney General Letitia James released a draft set of regulations on how the state will enforce the law, including rules for confirming a user’s age.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the SAFE for Kids Act last June after strong advocacy from both her and James, who helped to draft the law. The law will require children under 18 to receive parental or guardian consent in order to gain access to algorithmic feeds and overnight notifications from social media. Barring that consent, social media companies will need to prevent minors fro

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