Disruption

New toolkit aims to guide state lawmakers in regulating social media feeds

Representatives from the Knight-Georgetown Institute will share their plans in Boston this week.
The Instagram logo. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

BOSTON — A group of researchers wants to help state lawmakers get smarter about writing laws that regulate social media feeds — and they’ll be detailing their ideas here this week at the National Conference of States Legislatures’s annual legislative summit.

The researchers released a first-of-its-kind “toolkit” that provides alternatives to the approach legislators in California and New York took in 2024: requiring chronological feeds by default for minors.

Stay informed
Subscribe to keep reading.

Sign up today to get the latest state new at your fingertips and in your inbox.