Fairplay
@fairplayforkids.bsky.social
We work to enhance children’s wellbeing by eliminating the exploitative and harmful business practices of marketers and Big Tech! Learn more at www.fairplayforkids.org
👏 #PassKOSA now!
Sign our petition today telling your members of Congress to support the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct and protect children from
Meta & other Big Tech companies putting their well-being in danger
Sign the petition 🖊️ actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Sign our petition today telling your members of Congress to support the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct and protect children from
Meta & other Big Tech companies putting their well-being in danger
Sign the petition 🖊️ actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
August 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
👏 #PassKOSA now!
Sign our petition today telling your members of Congress to support the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct and protect children from
Meta & other Big Tech companies putting their well-being in danger
Sign the petition 🖊️ actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Sign our petition today telling your members of Congress to support the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct and protect children from
Meta & other Big Tech companies putting their well-being in danger
Sign the petition 🖊️ actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
📺Fairplay's Josh Golin was recently interviewed by CBS News! Josh told the outlet that what we really need to protect kids online is not new AI tools, but new regulation #PassKOSA
Watch the full clip➡️ www.cbsnews.com/news/balance...
Watch the full clip➡️ www.cbsnews.com/news/balance...
August 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
📺Fairplay's Josh Golin was recently interviewed by CBS News! Josh told the outlet that what we really need to protect kids online is not new AI tools, but new regulation #PassKOSA
Watch the full clip➡️ www.cbsnews.com/news/balance...
Watch the full clip➡️ www.cbsnews.com/news/balance...
Want to help families navigate screen time challenges? Join our Early Childhood Advocacy Program Director Rachel Franz on Aug 21 at 1 PM ET to discuss how screen time impacts children and learn shame-free strategies to support families.
📍Register today! bit.ly/4oxkpvV
📍Register today! bit.ly/4oxkpvV
August 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Want to help families navigate screen time challenges? Join our Early Childhood Advocacy Program Director Rachel Franz on Aug 21 at 1 PM ET to discuss how screen time impacts children and learn shame-free strategies to support families.
📍Register today! bit.ly/4oxkpvV
📍Register today! bit.ly/4oxkpvV
🆕 @time.com names us “one of the central organizations working to combat social-media addiction in kids.” Learn how our advocacy and network of activists have catalyzed the movement to get phones out of schools: time.com/7307163/pare...
August 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🆕 @time.com names us “one of the central organizations working to combat social-media addiction in kids.” Learn how our advocacy and network of activists have catalyzed the movement to get phones out of schools: time.com/7307163/pare...
2nd chances are rare. But right now, Congress can finish the job it failed to last year and pass the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct📜
Tell your Senators and Representative to support this massively popular bill & help save kids' lives. #PassKOSA now!
✍️https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa
Tell your Senators and Representative to support this massively popular bill & help save kids' lives. #PassKOSA now!
✍️https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa
July 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
2nd chances are rare. But right now, Congress can finish the job it failed to last year and pass the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct📜
Tell your Senators and Representative to support this massively popular bill & help save kids' lives. #PassKOSA now!
✍️https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa
Tell your Senators and Representative to support this massively popular bill & help save kids' lives. #PassKOSA now!
✍️https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-passkosa
This month, Fairplay staff attended the Children & Screens conference in DC! We loved connecting in person, sharing phone-free schools resources, & hearing our own Josh Golin debate the question, “Should high schools ban smartphones?” (the answer is yes! ✅)
💛 Check out some highlights:
💛 Check out some highlights:
July 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This month, Fairplay staff attended the Children & Screens conference in DC! We loved connecting in person, sharing phone-free schools resources, & hearing our own Josh Golin debate the question, “Should high schools ban smartphones?” (the answer is yes! ✅)
💛 Check out some highlights:
💛 Check out some highlights:
🖐️🎤 “Keeping kids safe online is a bipartisan, human, issue. It’s not political.”
🔥 Read Parents for Safe Online Spaces member Kim Osterman’s op-ed on the importance of resisting the AI state law moratorium and her call to #passKOSA. www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/for-...
🔥 Read Parents for Safe Online Spaces member Kim Osterman’s op-ed on the importance of resisting the AI state law moratorium and her call to #passKOSA. www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/for-...
July 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🖐️🎤 “Keeping kids safe online is a bipartisan, human, issue. It’s not political.”
🔥 Read Parents for Safe Online Spaces member Kim Osterman’s op-ed on the importance of resisting the AI state law moratorium and her call to #passKOSA. www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/for-...
🔥 Read Parents for Safe Online Spaces member Kim Osterman’s op-ed on the importance of resisting the AI state law moratorium and her call to #passKOSA. www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/for-...
As the threat of AI grows, lawmakers MUST act to protect kids online...but efforts to revive the state AI law moratorium are NOT the answer!!
We partnered with nearly 170 other orgs to explain to Congress just why not. Read the letter now! tinyurl.com/AIActionLTR
We partnered with nearly 170 other orgs to explain to Congress just why not. Read the letter now! tinyurl.com/AIActionLTR
July 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As the threat of AI grows, lawmakers MUST act to protect kids online...but efforts to revive the state AI law moratorium are NOT the answer!!
We partnered with nearly 170 other orgs to explain to Congress just why not. Read the letter now! tinyurl.com/AIActionLTR
We partnered with nearly 170 other orgs to explain to Congress just why not. Read the letter now! tinyurl.com/AIActionLTR
With Congress dragging its feet, should the FTC step up to rein in Big Tech and keep kids safe online? Can they? 🤔
🎯 Our own Haley Hinkle answers these questions and more in her latest interview on Marketplace. Listen now: bit.ly/3GSnZQb
🎯 Our own Haley Hinkle answers these questions and more in her latest interview on Marketplace. Listen now: bit.ly/3GSnZQb
July 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
With Congress dragging its feet, should the FTC step up to rein in Big Tech and keep kids safe online? Can they? 🤔
🎯 Our own Haley Hinkle answers these questions and more in her latest interview on Marketplace. Listen now: bit.ly/3GSnZQb
🎯 Our own Haley Hinkle answers these questions and more in her latest interview on Marketplace. Listen now: bit.ly/3GSnZQb
After leading the effort to strip the state AI law moratorium from the Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Marsha Blackburn says that until Congress passes bills like her Kids Online Safety Act "states have every right to take action to protect their residents."
Thank you, Sen. Blackburn! #PassKOSA
Thank you, Sen. Blackburn! #PassKOSA
July 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
After leading the effort to strip the state AI law moratorium from the Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Marsha Blackburn says that until Congress passes bills like her Kids Online Safety Act "states have every right to take action to protect their residents."
Thank you, Sen. Blackburn! #PassKOSA
Thank you, Sen. Blackburn! #PassKOSA
😱 A sneaky provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” would ban states from passing & enforcing their own laws to regulate AI for 10 years. It would also prevent states from enforcing laws already on the books!
This is UNACCEPTABLE! Join us & tell Congress not to ban state AI laws: bit.ly/AIstatelaws
This is UNACCEPTABLE! Join us & tell Congress not to ban state AI laws: bit.ly/AIstatelaws
June 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
😱 A sneaky provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” would ban states from passing & enforcing their own laws to regulate AI for 10 years. It would also prevent states from enforcing laws already on the books!
This is UNACCEPTABLE! Join us & tell Congress not to ban state AI laws: bit.ly/AIstatelaws
This is UNACCEPTABLE! Join us & tell Congress not to ban state AI laws: bit.ly/AIstatelaws
A decade ago, we exposed Mattel's Hello #Barbie as a creepy surveillance doll, helping to turn its release into a dud 😑
Now, we're calling on Mattel to end its partnership with OpenAI before it harms more kids❌
Read our statement: fairplayforkids.org/statement-on...
Now, we're calling on Mattel to end its partnership with OpenAI before it harms more kids❌
Read our statement: fairplayforkids.org/statement-on...
June 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A decade ago, we exposed Mattel's Hello #Barbie as a creepy surveillance doll, helping to turn its release into a dud 😑
Now, we're calling on Mattel to end its partnership with OpenAI before it harms more kids❌
Read our statement: fairplayforkids.org/statement-on...
Now, we're calling on Mattel to end its partnership with OpenAI before it harms more kids❌
Read our statement: fairplayforkids.org/statement-on...
👏Great news: Vermont's governor has signed the #KidsCode into law!
The Kids Code will require social media companies to set privacy settings by default and ban addictive features like infinite scrolling and notifications
Read the statement from @designitforus.bsky.social
The Kids Code will require social media companies to set privacy settings by default and ban addictive features like infinite scrolling and notifications
Read the statement from @designitforus.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
👏Great news: Vermont's governor has signed the #KidsCode into law!
The Kids Code will require social media companies to set privacy settings by default and ban addictive features like infinite scrolling and notifications
Read the statement from @designitforus.bsky.social
The Kids Code will require social media companies to set privacy settings by default and ban addictive features like infinite scrolling and notifications
Read the statement from @designitforus.bsky.social
⚠️WARNING: Google's Gemini AI companion is NOT safe for kids!
Fairplay, @epicprivacy.bsky.social + other orgs & experts call on Google to stop the rollout of Gemini for kids < 13 AND the
FTC to investigate Google for violating kids' online privacy law
Learn More ▶️ bit.ly/nogeminifork...
Fairplay, @epicprivacy.bsky.social + other orgs & experts call on Google to stop the rollout of Gemini for kids < 13 AND the
FTC to investigate Google for violating kids' online privacy law
Learn More ▶️ bit.ly/nogeminifork...
May 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
⚠️WARNING: Google's Gemini AI companion is NOT safe for kids!
Fairplay, @epicprivacy.bsky.social + other orgs & experts call on Google to stop the rollout of Gemini for kids < 13 AND the
FTC to investigate Google for violating kids' online privacy law
Learn More ▶️ bit.ly/nogeminifork...
Fairplay, @epicprivacy.bsky.social + other orgs & experts call on Google to stop the rollout of Gemini for kids < 13 AND the
FTC to investigate Google for violating kids' online privacy law
Learn More ▶️ bit.ly/nogeminifork...
🚨 BREAKING: The Kids Online Safety Act was just reintroduced in the Senate by Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal and Majority Leader Thune and Minority Leader Schumer!
Congress now has a choice: stand with #BigTech, or #PassKOSA and stand with families instead 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋 www.bit.ly/kosareintro
Congress now has a choice: stand with #BigTech, or #PassKOSA and stand with families instead 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋 www.bit.ly/kosareintro
May 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The Kids Online Safety Act was just reintroduced in the Senate by Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal and Majority Leader Thune and Minority Leader Schumer!
Congress now has a choice: stand with #BigTech, or #PassKOSA and stand with families instead 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋 www.bit.ly/kosareintro
Congress now has a choice: stand with #BigTech, or #PassKOSA and stand with families instead 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋 www.bit.ly/kosareintro
This #MothersDay, we're so proud to work with this amazing group of moms & dads who have suffered the worst loss imaginable - the death of a child - but are taking action to prevent other moms from losing their children to online harms. Thank you ParentsSOS! #MothersDay2025
May 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This #MothersDay, we're so proud to work with this amazing group of moms & dads who have suffered the worst loss imaginable - the death of a child - but are taking action to prevent other moms from losing their children to online harms. Thank you ParentsSOS! #MothersDay2025
🆕Members of Congress are urging the FTC to act on our request to investigate #Meta!
We asked the FTC to investigate Meta's violations of kids' safety & privacy on #HorizonWorlds. Now Sen. Markey & Rep. Castor have sent a letter to the FTC chair 📨
More ➡️ fairplayforkids.org/congress-mem...
We asked the FTC to investigate Meta's violations of kids' safety & privacy on #HorizonWorlds. Now Sen. Markey & Rep. Castor have sent a letter to the FTC chair 📨
More ➡️ fairplayforkids.org/congress-mem...
April 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🆕Members of Congress are urging the FTC to act on our request to investigate #Meta!
We asked the FTC to investigate Meta's violations of kids' safety & privacy on #HorizonWorlds. Now Sen. Markey & Rep. Castor have sent a letter to the FTC chair 📨
More ➡️ fairplayforkids.org/congress-mem...
We asked the FTC to investigate Meta's violations of kids' safety & privacy on #HorizonWorlds. Now Sen. Markey & Rep. Castor have sent a letter to the FTC chair 📨
More ➡️ fairplayforkids.org/congress-mem...
🚨 BREAKING: We just filed a complaint against Meta at the FTC 🚨
We're alleging that Mark Zuckerberg & co endangered kids on #HorizonWorlds -- and broke the law
The FTC must investigate. Read our complaint! 🔗www.bit.ly/complaintagainstmeta
We're alleging that Mark Zuckerberg & co endangered kids on #HorizonWorlds -- and broke the law
The FTC must investigate. Read our complaint! 🔗www.bit.ly/complaintagainstmeta
April 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 BREAKING: We just filed a complaint against Meta at the FTC 🚨
We're alleging that Mark Zuckerberg & co endangered kids on #HorizonWorlds -- and broke the law
The FTC must investigate. Read our complaint! 🔗www.bit.ly/complaintagainstmeta
We're alleging that Mark Zuckerberg & co endangered kids on #HorizonWorlds -- and broke the law
The FTC must investigate. Read our complaint! 🔗www.bit.ly/complaintagainstmeta
📢 812 reports of sextortion per week.
Survivors are silenced while platforms profit. It's time for accountability. #EndExploitation #RepealSection230
👉 Act now: dirtydozenlist.org
Survivors are silenced while platforms profit. It's time for accountability. #EndExploitation #RepealSection230
👉 Act now: dirtydozenlist.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
📢 812 reports of sextortion per week.
Survivors are silenced while platforms profit. It's time for accountability. #EndExploitation #RepealSection230
👉 Act now: dirtydozenlist.org
Survivors are silenced while platforms profit. It's time for accountability. #EndExploitation #RepealSection230
👉 Act now: dirtydozenlist.org
Shame on Meta for pulling a PR stunt instead of actually making its platforms safe 🤡 If Zuck wanted to protect kids online, he would support life-saving legislation like KOSA and COPPA 2.0 #PassKOSA
Read our Executive Director Josh Golin’s statement: bit.ly/4lgSYER
Read our Executive Director Josh Golin’s statement: bit.ly/4lgSYER
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Shame on Meta for pulling a PR stunt instead of actually making its platforms safe 🤡 If Zuck wanted to protect kids online, he would support life-saving legislation like KOSA and COPPA 2.0 #PassKOSA
Read our Executive Director Josh Golin’s statement: bit.ly/4lgSYER
Read our Executive Director Josh Golin’s statement: bit.ly/4lgSYER
Do phones in school ease anxiety, or do they enable harm? Get a clinical perspective from psychiatrist Allie Baker👩⚕️in the next Community of Practice session from the #PhoneFreeSchools Movement! Join the webinar April 8 at 12 ET 📵🏫
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April 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Do phones in school ease anxiety, or do they enable harm? Get a clinical perspective from psychiatrist Allie Baker👩⚕️in the next Community of Practice session from the #PhoneFreeSchools Movement! Join the webinar April 8 at 12 ET 📵🏫
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Is social media as deadly as smoking? One California judge thinks so! 📱🚬
“It might be actually worse than a carcinogen” 🔻
bit.ly/4i5gq5f
“It might be actually worse than a carcinogen” 🔻
bit.ly/4i5gq5f
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Is social media as deadly as smoking? One California judge thinks so! 📱🚬
“It might be actually worse than a carcinogen” 🔻
bit.ly/4i5gq5f
“It might be actually worse than a carcinogen” 🔻
bit.ly/4i5gq5f
👀 FIRST LOOK: The creators of the "A Minute of Your Attention" project just dropped an EXCLUSIVE advanced copy of their new graphic novel: Noisy World.
If you’re looking for a guide to teach tweens and teens about the attention economy and social media, look no further! bit.ly/43C8YLl
If you’re looking for a guide to teach tweens and teens about the attention economy and social media, look no further! bit.ly/43C8YLl
April 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
👀 FIRST LOOK: The creators of the "A Minute of Your Attention" project just dropped an EXCLUSIVE advanced copy of their new graphic novel: Noisy World.
If you’re looking for a guide to teach tweens and teens about the attention economy and social media, look no further! bit.ly/43C8YLl
If you’re looking for a guide to teach tweens and teens about the attention economy and social media, look no further! bit.ly/43C8YLl
Surprise, surprise, Meta is trying to side-step legislation by paying lip service to kids' online safety via Instagram Teen Accounts & a massive PR campaign. 🙄
📢 If Zuckerberg were truly committed to making his platforms safe for kids, he would support #KOSA!
Read more: bit.ly/3QUWE1h
📢 If Zuckerberg were truly committed to making his platforms safe for kids, he would support #KOSA!
Read more: bit.ly/3QUWE1h
April 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Surprise, surprise, Meta is trying to side-step legislation by paying lip service to kids' online safety via Instagram Teen Accounts & a massive PR campaign. 🙄
📢 If Zuckerberg were truly committed to making his platforms safe for kids, he would support #KOSA!
Read more: bit.ly/3QUWE1h
📢 If Zuckerberg were truly committed to making his platforms safe for kids, he would support #KOSA!
Read more: bit.ly/3QUWE1h
It’s been 14 months since Zuck apologized to
ParentsSOS members, & we are STILL begging Congress to protect our kids and #passKOSA.
🎯 In her new op-ed, Joann Bogard calls that apology “smoke and mirrors” & demands Congress do something to #ProtectOurKids this year.
Read it now: t.co/7A0Zzm3rEq
ParentsSOS members, & we are STILL begging Congress to protect our kids and #passKOSA.
🎯 In her new op-ed, Joann Bogard calls that apology “smoke and mirrors” & demands Congress do something to #ProtectOurKids this year.
Read it now: t.co/7A0Zzm3rEq
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s been 14 months since Zuck apologized to
ParentsSOS members, & we are STILL begging Congress to protect our kids and #passKOSA.
🎯 In her new op-ed, Joann Bogard calls that apology “smoke and mirrors” & demands Congress do something to #ProtectOurKids this year.
Read it now: t.co/7A0Zzm3rEq
ParentsSOS members, & we are STILL begging Congress to protect our kids and #passKOSA.
🎯 In her new op-ed, Joann Bogard calls that apology “smoke and mirrors” & demands Congress do something to #ProtectOurKids this year.
Read it now: t.co/7A0Zzm3rEq