Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Massachusetts Democrat and longtime critic of Big Tech , introduced a package of three bills on Monday designed to tighten oversight of social media platforms, expand safeguards for children, and tax advertising revenue from major tech companies to fund education initiatives.

“These social media corporations are the most wealthy, most powerful corporations in the history of the world,” Auchincloss told TIME. “I believe they have been corroding our civil discourse, they’ve been ‘attention fracking’ our children and treating our youth like products, not people.”

Auchincloss has named the trio of bills the UnAnxious Generation package, in reference to Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation , which outlines the ways social media has transforme

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