Social Media
plan of action
Pass – and properly enforce – data privacy legislation. The legislation must include Purpose Limitation, the requirement that data collected for one purpose cannot be used for another.
Repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Support the new safeguards imposed under Meta’s recent settlement, which includes limiting teens to two hours a day on Facebook and Instagram without parental approval; restricting overnight use and school-hour notifications, strengthening age verification and content protections; and giving parents greater control over their children’s accounts.
This approach will likely prove more effective than an outright ban. Australia prohibited children under 16 from using social media in December 2025, yet three months later more than 85 percent of under-16 participants in one study were still using the affected platforms, often circumventing restrictions with fake accounts, false ages and other workarounds.
Back off antitrust actions against U.S. tech companies. In such a rapidly evolving and competitive environment there is no such thing as permanent monopolies (companies are already at risk of weakening in the face of new competition). Read more here.
Support legislation that requires social media platforms to disclose to their users when hostile governments or their agents are making propaganda claims in posts.
Modernize spectrum regulation by expanding flexible-use licenses, spectrum sharing, secondary markets, and unlicensed access; streamline the process for reallocating underused spectrum; and retain necessary interference, competition, public-safety, and anti-hoarding safeguards.
Reinstitute the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the leading U.S. intelligence operation charged with “mitigating threats to democracy and U.S. national interests.”
Reinstitute the initiative run by the Global Engagement Centre (GEC) that coordinated cooperation with our European allies to identify and expose disinformation operations targeting America and Americans.
Classify broadband service as a “telecommunications,” restoring net neutrality as the national standard for broadband reliability, security, and consumer protection (net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers must treat all internet traffic equally, without blocking or prioritizing certain content, applications, or services over others). Ensure that broadband services are treated as an essential resource deserving of FCC oversight under Title II authority.
Pass legislation that modernizes campaign finance laws to account for online political advertising, expanding the regulation of TV and radio ads to internet ads. The legislation should also increase election advertising transparency by allowing the public to see who bought an online political ad, regardless of its origin.
Expand the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Anything surveilling the movement of minors should never happen. Ever.
Pressure the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to scrutinize data collection methods to see if they constitute deceptive practices under existing law.
Demand the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) establish a data-broker clearinghouse that would function similarly to the FTC’s “Do Not Call” registry. The clearinghouse would allow Americans to submit a single, one-time request to all registered data brokers to delete their data and prevent future collection.
Have a zero-tolerance policy toward cyberbullying. Fully prosecute abusers of the law.