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✍🏽 American families need our elected leaders in Congress to make sure our kids are protected from the dangers of .

Unfortunately, the Great American Act of 2026 falls well short of that need.

Read our statement. ➡️
https://fairplayforkids.org/statement-great-american-artificial-intelligence-act-falls-short

🧸 Children lose the wide-ranging benefits of imaginative play when algorithms decide what toys can say.

Read the new op-ed in Common Dreams by Fairplay's Founder Dr. Susan Linn & Young Children Thrive Offline Program Director Rachel Franz! 📰

More Tech, Less Play: The Hidden Costs of AI Toys | Common Dreams ​Children lose the wide-ranging benefits of imaginative play when algorithms decide what toys can say.

🆕YouTube pledges to clearly label AI videos 🤖

Fairplay’s Rachel Franz says: “Research shows that disclosures like these are ineffective for kids. What children really need is for YouTube to curb the proliferation of ‘Made for Kids’ AI slop.”

Read the full statement: https://fairplayforkids.org/statement-on-youtubes-pledge-to-clearly-label-ai-videos/

🎥WATCH: Fairplay Board Member Gaia Bernstein will discuss her new policy brief, “From bans to recalls: A public health framework for AI companion bots,” on The Brookings Institution's live panel!

⌚️Today | 11 am ET

🔗 Click below!

AI companion bots as a public health issue: A new framework for regulation | Brookings On May 26, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings will host a conversation on whether AI companion bots should be governed as a product with public health implications

🚨BREAKING: Fairplay & National Center on Sexual Exploitation just sent the FTC a Request to Investigate for:

💰Manipulating kids into spending lots of time and money
⚠️Exposing kids to harmful content & predators
❌Subjecting Black & LGBTQ+ youth to disproportionate harm
➕& more

🔎 Learn More: http://bit.ly/robloxharmskids

📢The DOJ's reported settlement with TikTok is “a slap on the wrist that will not meaningfully change TikTok’s exploitation and harm of children,” we told New York Post.

The $400 million figure amounts to “nothing more than pennies on the dollar” when the true scope of TikTok’s violations could have resulted in tens of billions in penalties, we said,

Read more 🔗

Exclusive | TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privacy breaches – years before DOJ’s sweetheart $400M deal: sources TikTok is nearing a $400 million truce with President Trump’s Justice Department over child data privacy breaches – a sweetheart deal as the social-media app was willing to pay $1 billion to settle…

👎The DOJ settlement with TikTok is a drop in the bucket when it comes to holding the company accountable for its violations.

❌A slap on the wrist isn’t meaningful change and does nothing to protect kids on the platform! 😡

📝Read our statement: https://fairplayforkids.org/statement-on-dojs-reported-settlement-with-tiktok/