by Ronak Patel (rspatel.personal@gmail.com)
Gov. Sarah Sanders, along with Sen. Tyler Dees, R- Siloam Springs, and Rep. Jon Eubanks, R-Paris, introduced legislation on Thursday (March 9) that would regulate social media companies and require age verification from users on social media sites.
Sanders said SB 396, the Social Media Safety Act, is needed given social media can be dangerous for kids.
“It’s already an incredibly dangerous world. The last thing they [kids] need is to be exposed to the most evil parts of it that play out on social media everyday,” she told reporters at a press conference at the state capitol.
