Federal court partially blocks California law requiring social media age verification

(The Center Square) – A federal court partially blocked a California law restricting social media access for minors, blocking its ban on social media notifications for minors during certain hours and ruling that personalized feeds that are built from users’ actions are not protected editorial content under the First Amendment. 

The court also ruled that the question of the law’s social media age verification requirement – which opponents say could include government identification and thus erode social media anonymity – is not yet ripe, as the provisions do not take effect until 2027 and the state is yet to issue guidelines to challenge.

Technology trade association NetChoice, which emerged victorious in the Supreme Court in Moody v. Netchoice earlier this year, filed its lawsuit against SB 976, California’s social

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