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Utah State Sen. Michael McKell, spoke to “GMA3” about concerns over scope and enforcement of the newly-passed laws regulating kids' social media access. As Congress considers banning TikTok amid growing fears over potential data privacy issues and Chinese government intrusion, some states are taking matters into their own hands to regulate social media access. Last week, Utah became the first state to pass a law limiting access to social media for kids under age 18. The statute will require parental consent for minors to use platforms like TikTok and Instagram, putting the onus on social media companies to verify users’ ages. One of the bill’s sponsors, State Sen. Michael McKell, spoke to “GMA3” about the scope of the new laws, addressing concerns over privacy and how the state plans to enforce them when they go into effect next March. EVA PILGRIM: So I just want you to break this down for us. How will these restrictions actually work? SEN. MICHAEL MCKELL: I think that's a gre...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide when threats made on social media can be prosecuted as crimes under the First Amendment. A convicted stalker from Colorado is asking the Supreme Court this week to toss out the law that put him in prison for sending hundreds of messages on social media to a singer-songwriter who felt threatened by the contact. Billy Raymond Counterman, who spent four and a half years behind bars, says he never intended to harm rising-star performer Coles Whalen, whom he'd never met, and that the First Amendment protects his ability to communicate with a public figure. Whalen said she feared for her life and that the years of incessant messages from Counterman on Facebook inflicted significant emotional distress and sent her into hiding. She no longer performs openly in public. A Supreme Court case pitting a singer songwriter against a convicted stalker could clarify when threats made on social media become crimes. ABC News "It's very unfortunate that ano...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with social media giants in a case brought by families of victims in a terrorist attack in Turkey. A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google and Twitter in a pair of cases that had alleged social media liability in terror attacks overseas. Justice Clarence Thomas in an opinion for the Twitter case said that families of victims of a 2017 ISIS attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, did not adequately show that the online platforms had "aided and abetted" the terrorists in violation of federal law. "Plaintiffs have failed to allege that defendants intentionally provided any substantial aid to the Reina attack or otherwise consciously participating in the Reina attack -- much less that defendants so pervasively and systemically assisted ISIS as to render them liable for every ISIS attack," Thomas wrote. The Reina nightclub by the Bosphorus after mass shooting on New Year's Eve, Jan. 1, 2017 in Istanbul, T...