Meta & YouTube Child Safety Trials
The growing wave of verdicts and legal scrutiny around child-safety and social-media addiction harms.
Tell us where you stand
Answer the policy questions below. We'll map your positions to the bills in Congress and draft your message.
Mental health warnings on online platforms
1 bill on this topic
“Online platforms should have to show clear mental health warnings and help information before people use them.”
Keeping children under 16 off covered platforms
1 bill on this topic
“Covered platforms should have to stop children under 16 from creating or keeping accounts on their services.”
Online safety rules for minors
1 bill on this topic
“Online platforms that minors use should have a legal duty to reduce serious harms to young users.”
Transparency and accountability for youth platforms
1 bill on this topic
“Large platforms should have to publish child-safety reports, undergo outside audits, and clearly disclose how they treat minors and their data.”
Optional, but recommended. Messages sound more real when they include one specific reason from your life.
Example: My daughter's school closed twice last fall because of wildfire smoke.
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Your message will cover 3 bills in Congress
Why this works
01Lawmakers often don’t know what you think
A Yale field experiment found legislators shown actual district opinion shifted their votes to match it. The ones kept in the dark? No relationship between constituent views and how they voted.
02Congressional offices are built to process this
Offices log, sort, tag, and tally incoming contact, then brief the member. Constituent communications eat roughly a third of House staff resources. Your message gets counted.
03Personalized beats template, by a lot
92% of staff say individualized messages influence undecided lawmakers — versus 56% for form letters. Naming a specific bill with your own reasoning puts you in a different category entirely.
04Silence isn’t neutral
When offices don’t hear from constituents, they ask lobbyists instead. Not contacting your rep doesn’t leave the scale empty — it hands the weight to someone else.