1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

Trump wants to ban states from regulating Al, and in exchange, Republican lawmakers are asking him to sign off on child internet safety bills. But the problem is, the real accountability in these bills—like holding platforms to a "duty of care" to protect young users from harmful algorithmic designs-has been completely gutted by lobbyists. Instead, lawmakers are leaning hard into mandatory age verification. And as @signal_app President @meredith._ meredith warns, age verification isn't just about kids because it requires verifying identity, which effectively builds a mass surveillance infrastructure tracking everyone every time we go online.