Connecticut HB 6857 (Social Media Feeds and Minors)
Connecticut, United StatesMedium threatConnecticut's HB 6857 would have blocked personalized social media feeds for anyone a platform had not age-checked or cleared with parental consent.
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Died at adjournment
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HB 6857 barred platforms from showing a personalized, data-driven feed to a user unless the platform used "commercially reasonable and technically feasible methods" to determine the user was not a minor under 18, or had verifiable parental consent. It also limited feed notifications to minors to 8 a.m. through 9 p.m. and set a default one-hour daily limit for them, and data collected for the age check had to be deleted after use. The House passed it 121-26 on May 14, 2025, with an amendment moving the start date to January 1, 2027. The Senate never voted, and it died at adjournment.
What’s at stake
To serve anyone a normal recommended feed, a platform would first have to establish that the user is an adult. That puts an age check in front of the way most people use social media.
Our take
Attorney General William Tong's office drafted the recommendations and the House passed them by a wide margin. The deletion rule limits what happens to the data afterward, and adults would still have had to prove their age to see the feed they already use.
Timeline
Died at adjournmentLatest
Placed on the Senate calendar; no Senate vote followed
Passed the House as amended, 121-26
General Law Committee approved a substitute
Public hearing
Sponsors
Joint Committee on General Law, Rep. Christie Carpino, Sen. Saud Anwar, Rep. Tim Ackert, Rep. Roland Lemar, Rep. Matt Blumenthal
Votes
- House — Passed, as amended (Senate never voted) (121 to 26) · May 14, 2025
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