Colorado Battles Tech Group Over Media Warnings
“Colorado’s Healthier Social Media Use by Youth Act requires social media companies to disclose factual, research-based information to young users about the health effects of their own products,” the state argues to the 10th Circuit.
Colorado officials are urging an appellate court to allow enforcement of a law mandating cigarette-style warnings for social media.
“Colorado’s Healthier Social Media Use by Youth Act requires social media companies to disclose factual, research-based information to young users about the health effects of their own products,” Attorney General Philip Weiser argues in papers filed recently with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. “Those disclosures are standard commercial product warnings.”
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