Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

28. Federal Communications Commission · Minor · Needs Congress

Strengthen protections against young children using social media

Not started

849 28. Federal Communications Commission

“The FCC should also work with Congress to ensure stronger protections against young children accessing social media sites despite age restrictions that generally prohibit their use of these sites.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The most active legislative field of the four page 849 asks, and still short of the first rung. The Kids Off Social Media Act (S. 278) was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on 2025-06-30 (Calendar No. 108) and never called up; the Kids Online Safety Act was ordered reported by Senate Commerce with a substitute on 2026-08-05 (S. 1748) and forwarded by a House subcommittee 13–10 on 2025-12-11 (H.R. 6484); the App Store Accountability Act (H.R. 3149) and four companion measures were forwarded by subcommittee the same day. Under playbook §3b, ordering reported, marking up and calendar placement are all `not-started` — no chamber has voted. The FCC took no action of its own: no Federal Register FCC document since 2025-01-20 concerns children's access to social media.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

What was checked and is not the ask. The FTC’s amended Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (published 2025-04-22, 2025-05904) strengthens protection of personal information collected from children under 13. It is a data-privacy rule at a different agency, not a measure against young children getting past social-media age restrictions, so under playbook §3b it does not move this ask. Recorded here so a later pass does not read it as a missed partial.

Committee action named, rung unchanged. This item is the clearest illustration in Chapter 28 of the §3b rule that committee and calendar action is still not started: two different bills reached the top of the committee process in both chambers within the window and neither was voted on.

Action
restrict
Object
Children's access to social media sites
ID
2197