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The White House today endorsed age assurance requirements, self-harm design mandates, and COPPA coverage of AI — every position these platforms spent $61.5M lobbying to defeat.

The National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (March 2026) directs Congress to require AI platforms accessed by minors to implement features reducing sexual exploitation and self-harm risk, establish age assurance requirements, and affirm that existing child privacy protections apply to AI. Every lobbying dollar tracked on this page was spent opposing the policy outcomes the White House now recommends.

Buried in the same document: language that could eliminate the only legal remedy available to families whose children died.

The White House framework states: "Congress should avoid setting ambiguous standards about permissible content, or open-ended liability, that could give rise to excessive litigation." This is the platforms' language — verbatim — inside a child safety document. If enacted as statute, it could be used to cap or eliminate the tort liability that is currently the only financial consequence platforms face for design decisions that harm children.

There are currently thousands of families in MDL 3047 — the federal multi-district litigation against Meta, Google, Snap, TikTok, and others — whose children died or suffered serious harm. They have no remedy other than litigation. A federal statute limiting "open-ended liability" for AI platform design decisions is a statute that tells those families their children's deaths have no legal consequence. The KGM trial, currently before a Los Angeles jury, is the first of those cases to reach a verdict. The outcome of that trial — and the legal framework Congress enacts — will determine whether any of those families ever see accountability.

TeenAegis is watching. We will publish the platforms' lobbying position on this specific provision as it becomes available.

2024 Federal Lobbying Spend

Source: OpenSecrets.org — Senate Office of Public Records. Data downloaded Jan 23, 2026.