Age limits and parental consent for social media apps are among the few areas of wide US consensus, with a Pew Research poll in 2023 finding that 81% of Americans support requiring parental consent for children to create social media accounts and 71% support age verification before using social med»»»

Law to take effect on January 1 has support of social media companies, but Apple and Google oppose it. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill requiring Apple and Alphabet’s Google to verify the age of users of their app stores, putting the second most populous state in the United Sta»»»