Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The Stop the Scroll Act requires covered social media and anonymous-content platforms to display a clear mental health warning label to users in the United States. Labels must warn of potential negative mental health impacts, link to federal resources (including 988), reappear after each hour of continuous use if the user acknowledges and proceeds, and cannot be hidden in terms or hyperlinks.
Progressives emphasize public-health benefits and federal coordination
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill sets a clear substantive obligation (mandatory mental-health warning labels on defined covered platforms), identifies implementing agencies and enforcement authorities, and integrates with existing statutory authorities.
The Stop the Scroll Act requires covered social media and anonymous-content platforms to display a clear mental health warning label to users in the United States.
Labels must warn of potential negative mental health impacts, link to federal resources (including 988), reappear after each hour of continuous use if the user acknowledges and proceeds, and cannot be hidden in terms or hyperlinks.
The FTC, with concurrence of the HHS Secretary acting through the Surgeon General, must promulgate regulations within 180 days and review them every five years.
Substantive but narrow reform; public‑health framing helps, yet industry opposition, enforcement exposure, and legal challenges reduce prospects.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill sets a clear substantive obligation (mandatory mental-health warning labels on defined covered platforms), identifies implementing agencies and enforcement authorities, and integrates with existing statutory authorities. It specifies basic label content and some form restrictions while delegating technical standards and many operational definitions to administrative rulemaking.
Progressives emphasize public-health benefits and federal coordination
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize public-health benefits and federal coordination
Likely supportive because the bill treats social-platform risks as public health issues and mandates user-facing disclosures.
Supports federal coordination between the FTC and Surgeon General and inclusion of 988.
May still view labels as only a first step toward broader platform accountability.
Cautiously favorable: the bill is a targeted, modest intervention to inform consumers and creates a clear enforcement mechanism.
Support depends on practicable, evidence-based regulation and predictable compliance costs for platforms of varying sizes.
Likely opposed or skeptical because it expands FTC regulatory reach and compels platforms to display government-linked health warnings.
Views this as federal overreach imposing compliance costs and potential First Amendment or commerce concerns.
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Substantive but narrow reform; public‑health framing helps, yet industry opposition, enforcement exposure, and legal challenges reduce prospects.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize public-health benefits and federal coordination
Substantive but narrow reform; public‑health framing helps, yet industry opposition, enforcement exposure, and legal challenges reduce pros…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill sets a clear substantive obligation (mandatory mental-health warning labels on defined covered platforms), identifies implementing agencies and enforcement authoritie…
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