John,

Tomorrow marks three months since the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where senators pressed CEOs from five major social media companies — Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord — about their platforms’ efforts to protect children from sexual exploitation online.

That hearing exposed just how severely Big Tech companies have failed in their promises to protect kids online, despite being warned by internal product managers and external advocacy groups time and time again. The evidence was so overwhelming that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to apologize for his company’s failures.

Yet major legislation to hold Big Tech accountable — like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which has now been introduced in both the House and Senate — has yet to receive a vote in Congress. We need Congress to take action now.

Write to your elected officials today and tell them to support KOSA and help create a safer online environment for children!

Social media platforms can’t be trusted to act in the best interest of users — especially children. That’s why we need bipartisan legislation like KOSA that would make tech companies design safer platforms for children to ensure a healthy relationship between social media and our communities.

KOSA would place the well-being of children before Big Tech profits, establish responsible safeguards by default, and disable addictive features on sites. Here at Issue One, we see these changes as crucial to ensuring a safer and healthier future for our democracy.

It’s time for action on this critical issue, and we need your help to move the needle. Your voice is crucial — will you write your elected officials today and tell them to support KOSA?

Thanks for all you do,

Jamie Neikrie
Legislative Manager, Technology Reform