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California Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (Senate Bill 976)
- Country
- United States
- Law / measure
- California Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (Senate Bill 976)
- Type
- content-moderation
- Enforcement
- compliance
- Status
- largely upheld (Ninth Circuit, 2025; en banc rehearing denied)
- Date
- 2025-09-09
Summary
California's SB 976 restricts 'addictive feeds' and nighttime notifications to minors and forces minors' accounts to default to private. NetChoice - whose members include Reddit - sued (NetChoice v. Bonta). On Sept. 9, 2025 the Ninth Circuit upheld the addictive-feed restrictions and default-private-settings requirement while striking the ban on showing engagement metrics to minors as a content-based speech restriction; en banc rehearing was denied Nov. 6, 2025.