'NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court'

Published: (January 6, 2026 at 11:01 AM EST)
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Source: Slashdot

Source: Slashdot

Summary

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction — despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims.

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