We work to enhance children’s wellbeing by eliminating the exploitative and harmful business practices of marketers and Big Tech! Learn more at www.fairplayforkids.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lwgxc56uds2i👏 #PassKOSA now! Sign our petition today telling your members of Congress to support the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct and protect children from Meta & other Big Tech companies putting their well-being in danger Sign the petition 🖊️ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa15 Aug 2025 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwgxc56uds2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lwbxh6hnp22z📺Fairplay's Josh Golin was recently interviewed by CBS News! Josh told the outlet that what we really need to protect kids online is not new AI tools, but new regulation #PassKOSA Watch the full clip➡️ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/balance-app-kids-online-habits-mental-health/13 Aug 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbxh6hnp22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lw7rebptns2rWant to help families navigate screen time challenges? Join our Early Childhood Advocacy Program Director Rachel Franz on Aug 21 at 1 PM ET to discuss how screen time impacts children and learn shame-free strategies to support families. 📍Register today! bit.ly/4oxkpvV12 Aug 2025 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw7rebptns2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lvqjg7spts2i🔊Our Executive Director Josh Golin tells it like it is! Listen as talks with Dr. Johann D'Souza about the harms facing children online, Big Tech’s prioritization of profits over kids, and how our advocacy is changing the landscape! 🎧 youtu.be/6DdEX3dgMM8 https://youtu.be/6DdEX3dgMM806 Aug 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqjg7spts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lvnqvboay22eNeed a fresh listen for your commute? 🚗🚉 🚲 🎧Tune into Issues & Ideas Radio where our own Haley Hinkle talks about the importance of COPPA 2.0 and how it will broaden protections for kids online! http://www.issuesandideasradio.com/podcasts/haleyhinkle.mp305 Aug 2025 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnqvboay22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lvlmcfnrc22w 🆕 @time.com names us “one of the central organizations working to combat social-media addiction in kids.” Learn how our advocacy and network of activists have catalyzed the movement to get phones out of schools: https://time.com/7307163/parent-movement-phone-free-schools/04 Aug 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlmcfnrc22whttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lveh4k2khc2iWe're grateful to @aclu.org for all their work protecting free speech, which includes their own right to lie about a bill that will protect kids from social media's dangerous & addictive design But KOSA is not a censorship bill. And enlisting young people to spread lies is shameful https://media.tenor.com/afcUoWh6dtoAAAAC/lielielie-liar-liar.gif?hh=268&ww=30101 Aug 2025 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lveh4k2khc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lvbhawe6jk2i2nd chances are rare. But right now, Congress can finish the job it failed to last year and pass the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct📜 Tell your Senators and Representative to support this massively popular bill & help save kids' lives. #PassKOSA now! ✍️https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa31 Jul 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbhawe6jk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lv4jjjfgec2wThis month, Fairplay staff attended the Children & Screens conference in DC! We loved connecting in person, sharing phone-free schools resources, & hearing our own Josh Golin debate the question, “Should high schools ban smartphones?” (the answer is yes! ✅) 💛 Check out some highlights:29 Jul 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4jjjfgec2whttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3luq5ydqf7s2p🖐️🎤 “Keeping kids safe online is a bipartisan, human, issue. It’s not political.” 🔥 Read Parents for Safe Online Spaces member Kim Osterman’s op-ed on the importance of resisting the AI state law moratorium and her call to #passKOSA. https://www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/for-the-kids-sake-kill-the-moratorium-on-ai-regulation-opinion/article_bbd580ec-1dad-4e6d-8254-8de8826749f2.html24 Jul 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3luq5ydqf7s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lun4wwydxc2fAs the threat of AI grows, lawmakers MUST act to protect kids online...but efforts to revive the state AI law moratorium are NOT the answer!! We partnered with nearly 170 other orgs to explain to Congress just why not. Read the letter now! tinyurl.com/AIActionLTR23 Jul 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lun4wwydxc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lu5z2etl3c2oWith Congress dragging its feet, should the FTC step up to rein in Big Tech and keep kids safe online? Can they? 🤔 🎯 Our own Haley Hinkle answers these questions and more in her latest interview on Marketplace. Listen now: bit.ly/3GSnZQb17 Jul 2025 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu5z2etl3c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3ltz4o5a2t22i⚠️“I think if Devin would have seen a warning ... that would have prompted him to acknowledge that he’s been on there too long” ParentsSOS' Bridgette Norring remembers her late son Devin as Minnesota enacts a law requiring warning labels on social media https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/07/14/minnesota-law-to-require-mental-health-warnings-on-social-media15 Jul 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltz4o5a2t22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3ltjy35fycc2b"It would change from media that honors kids & families to media where profit is the priority" Our Rachel Franz speaks to The American Prospect about a potential outcome of @pbs.org losing federal funds https://prospect.org/culture/2025-07-08-public-media-cuts-PBS-NPR-education/09 Jul 2025 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltjy35fycc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lthh6sh2t22oAfter leading the effort to strip the state AI law moratorium from the Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Marsha Blackburn says that until Congress passes bills like her Kids Online Safety Act "states have every right to take action to protect their residents." Thank you, Sen. Blackburn! #PassKOSA08 Jul 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lthh6sh2t22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lt2zjxaysc2oDYK Vermont is now the FIRST state in the country to ban schools from contacting students through social media? 🤩 Listen to Fairplay Executive Director - & Vermont resident - Josh Golin explain the significance of this breakthrough! 🎧 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzT0nHjTHwo03 Jul 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt2zjxaysc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lsycmqrubk2y🎙️The FTC has the authority --- and the responsibility --- to protect kids online in the absence of Congressional action Our Policy Counsel Haley Hinkle explains why on @marketplace.org 📻 https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/06/30/the-case-for-the-ftc-to-rein-in-big-tech-for-online-safety02 Jul 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsycmqrubk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lsvtv2he7s2qWoo-hoo! The proposed AI state law moratorium has been stripped from the #BigBeautifulBill! Our thanks to Marsha Blackburn, Maria Cantwell, & the 97 other senators who voted to remove the provision. And a HUGE shoutout to ParentsSOS for their tireless work to stop the moratorium! https://media.tenor.com/lmkKDLTqmYkAAAAC/happy-guy-dancing.gif?hh=374&ww=49801 Jul 2025 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvtv2he7s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lstcw4q2p22i🆕 ParentsSOS member Jennie DeSerio, whose 16-year-old son Mason took his own life after TikTok's algorithm sent him horrific content urging suicide and self-harm, speaks out against the proposed state AI law moratorium in Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-lost-my-16-year-old-son-suicide-from-addictive-ai-algorithms-we-cant-let-big-tech-destroy-our-children.amp30 Jun 2025 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lstcw4q2p22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lsjdqxyqw222The #KidsOnlineSafety Act continues to gain momentum!📈 Sen. Mark Kelly says he's cosponsoring KOSA to "give parents more tools to protect their kids" and "finally hold tech companies accountable for putting profits ahead of kids’ safety" #PassKOSA More➡️ https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/kelly-backs-legislation-to-protect-children-on-social-media-hold-tech-companies-accountable/26 Jun 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjdqxyqw222https://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lsgy77d7gk23😱 A sneaky provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” would ban states from passing & enforcing their own laws to regulate AI for 10 years. It would also prevent states from enforcing laws already on the books! This is UNACCEPTABLE! Join us & tell Congress not to ban state AI laws: bit.ly/AIstatelaws25 Jun 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsgy77d7gk23https://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lrvcbyxc4s2h📲Social media use PREDICTS future depression among tweens, according to a new study Learn more from @washingtonpost.com 📰https://wapo.st/4kWP03J18 Jun 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvcbyxc4s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lrsnqr5scc2mA decade ago, we exposed Mattel's Hello #Barbie as a creepy surveillance doll, helping to turn its release into a dud 😑 Now, we're calling on Mattel to end its partnership with OpenAI before it harms more kids❌ Read our statement: https://fairplayforkids.org/statement-on-mattels-new-partnership-with-openai/17 Jun 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrsnqr5scc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lrillonihk2v👏Great news: Vermont's governor has signed the #KidsCode into law! The Kids Code will require social media companies to set privacy settings by default and ban addictive features like infinite scrolling and notifications Read the statement from @designitforus.bsky.social13 Jun 2025 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrillonihk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lrg2dbk5pk2c#BigTech should NOT have the right to increase ad revenue by identifying kids who are likely to feel insecure about their weight — and then sending them videos promoting the 500-calorie diet Read our David Monahan's Letter to the Editor in @bostonglobe.com https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-kids-online-safety-act/12 Jun 2025 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrg2dbk5pk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lqufjsl27c2f🇺🇸Lawmakers from all 50 states are saying NO to the #AI law moratorium Read the letter from a bipartisan group of 260 state lawmakers opposing preemption of state laws regulating AI ✍️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/03/ai-regulation-moratorium-state-lawmakers-letter/05 Jun 2025 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqufjsl27c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/fairplayforkids.bsky.social/post/3lqfgfkdov22v🙅🏽 Americans across the political spectrum are saying NO to the 10-year ban on state #AI safety laws included in the #BigBeautifulBill passed by the US House 📝Learn more about the new poll from Common Sense & Echelon Insights https://www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releases/new-poll-reveals-strong-bipartisan-opposition-to-proposed-ban-on-state-ai-laws30 May 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:m3ftotjinvtozvsppebhkkbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfgfkdov22v