The author of the Kids Online Safety Act, whose mother, Alicia Silver, lost her son Mason at age 15 due to the online harms caused by social media companies such as Meta and Google, are being held accountable for their actions. The bill includes a “duty of care” requirement for social media platforms to implement common sense protections to protect children from risks such as sexual exploitation, cyberbullying, depression, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and more. It also requires platforms to change their algorithms to ensure children are protected from content that holds their developing brains, regardless of its dangers. Silver argues that this bill is the most comprehensive online child safety bill ever created and would be the first in over a quarter century to require social media to implement such measures. It has strong bipartisan support and has been reintroduced this Congress by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and has 76 Senate cosponsors. The stronger version of the bill would create a strong duty of care and prevent platforms from pretending they don't know when a user is a minor. The act would require the strongest privacy settings for minors by default and require robust safety features and design algorithms for child safety.