Kids’ Online Safety Bill Gets Revamp With Wide Support in Senate

Senators hoping to pass legislation to make social media platforms safer for children are inching closer to their long-desired goal, rolling out changes to their bill to ease lingering concerns and securing support from more than half of the chamber.

Lead sponsors Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released a revamped Kids Online Safety Act on Thursday and announced that 15 senators, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), have newly signed on to the bill, bringing the total number of co-sponsors to 62.

“This overwhelming bipartisan support for the Kids Online Safety Act,” Blumenthal and Blackburn said in ...