Senate enacts content-neutral social-media protections for minors using age-estimation methods
House File 4138 passed unanimously to require parental consent for younger users, restrict addictive features by default, and mandate age‑estimation technology for large platforms; sponsors framed it as a content‑neutral consumer protection for children.
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The Minnesota Senate passed House File 4138 on May 15, 2026, adopting a content-neutral consumer-protection bill aimed at reducing harms from social-media products for minors.
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