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Ohio lawmakers did pass a bill to require age verification in social media apps, but a federal judge struck that law down after social media companies challenged it, calling it a “breathtakingly ...

Though standard practice is to verify a user’s age based on whether they have a credit card, Ghanem said HB570 does not make it clear what would constitute sufficient compliance with the law.

Meta, X, and Snap Inc. signed a letter urging the South Dakota Senate Judiciary Committee to sign a bill placing new age verification restrictions on apps.

How to implement age restrictions has caused a conflict between Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, and Apple and Google, which own the two dominant U.S. app stores.

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In Louisiana, for instance, a bill passed committee which would require Google and Apple to verify the age of users and confirm parental consent for anyone under age 18, which would alleviate app ...

Though standard practice is to verify a user's age based on whether they have a credit card, Ghanem said HB570 does not make it clear what would constitute sufficient compliance with the law.

Ohio lawmakers did pass a bill to require age verification in social media apps, but a federal judge struck that law down after social media companies challenged it, calling it a “breathtakingly ...