ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL JOINS BIPARTISAN EFFORT URING CONGRESS TO PASS KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT

ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL JOINS BIPARTISAN EFFORT URING CONGRESS TO PASS KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT

November 05, 2026

Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a bipartisan coalition of 45 attorneys general in urging Congress to pass the Senate version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), legislation aimed at strengthening online protections for children and teens.

In a letter to congressional leadership, Attorney General Raoul and the coalition expressed continued support for Senate Bill 1748, which would establish minimum safety standards for social media and gaming platforms while preserving states' authority to enact and enforce laws protecting children from online harms.

"Attorneys general must retain the ability to protect their residents, by enforcing consumer protection laws and holding companies accountable for their harms," Raoul said. "It is vital social media platforms prioritize the protection of our children, and I will continue working with my colleagues to ensure that reality."

The renewed call for federal legislation follows Raoul's recently announced $17 billion multistate settlement with Meta, which requires the company to implement significant safeguards designed to protect users under 18 on Facebook and Instagram. These include daily time limits, restrictions on nighttime use, stronger protections against potentially harmful content and enhanced parental controls.

In their letter, Raoul and the attorneys general emphasize that the safeguards established through the Meta settlement, while significant, cannot provide consistent protections across the entire technology industry. Raoul and the attorneys general also highlight the importance of KOSA's Duty of Care provision, which would establish a lasting standard for all social media and gaming platforms that extends beyond the term of the settlement and to all platforms. Unlike a settlement with an individual company, this legislation would adapt as technologies and platform features evolve while preserving the states' ability to develop and enforce additional protections against emerging online harms.

The letter represents Raoul's latest action to protect children and minors from the harms of technology and social media platforms. In 2024, Raoul filed a lawsuit against TikTok for its harmful business practices targeting children and allegedly deceiving the public about the social media platform's dangers. Earlier this year, Raoul and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general demanded that xAI, the company that owns both the X social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok, take action to prevent Grok from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material. In 2025, Raoul co-led a coalition calling on major artificial intelligence (AI) companies to ensure that AI chatbots do not engage in sexually inappropriate conversations with children. Also in 2025, Raoul and a coalition of attorneys general called on the industry to address sycophantic and delusional outputs from AI chatbots and the dangers they present to children and vulnerable people. Raoul and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general called on Congress to pass legislation requiring a U.S. surgeon general warning on all algorithm-driven social media platforms in 2024.

Attorney General Raoul was joined in sending this letter by the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.