Article Summary JB Pritzker signed the Children’s Social Media Safety Act — a bill designed to protect children online and limit their access to addictive social media algorithms. The bill would require social media companies to verify a child’s age on the device’s operating system and use stricter features for minors like limiting location-sharing and...Read More
NEWS Published: July 31, 2026 at 12:22 PM Hayden Anthis, a geometry teacher at Harmony High since 2017, was arrested after detectives with the St. Cloud Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit say he began corresponding in an online forum with who he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Back in June, detectives say the conversations...Read More
A federal appeals court has upheld most provisions of a 2024 law aimed at protecting children from harmful and obscene material online. This reverses a lower court ruling that had blocked these provisions. Under the SCOPE Act—Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment—digital service providers (DSPs) must register the age of users, prevent harm, create parental...Read More
TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and other Big Tech giants will be required to strengthen privacy settings for minors under new Illinois legislation that seeks to crack down on addictive social media designs that keep kids scrolling for hours on end. The Children’s Social Media Safety Act, signed into law Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker, takes aim...Read More
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ST. CLOUD, Fla. – A Harmony High School teacher is under arrest after police say he showed up to meet a girl he believed was 14 years old. Hayden Anthis, a geometry teacher at Harmony High since 2017, was arrested after detectives with the St. Cloud Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit say he...Read More
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest in a flurry of suits filed against...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 31, 2026 CONTACT: Gov.Press@illinois.gov CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker signed the Children’s Social Media Safety Act (HB5511), a sweeping set of protections designed to keep Illinois kids...Read More
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest in a flurry of suits filed against...Read More
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest in a flurry of suits filed against...Read More
