Moody said she will not stop as Florida’s newest U.S. Senator in fighting abusive online platform practices and backed protections for children online, including the Kids Online Safety Act.
Continue fighting abusive online platform practices and support protections for children online, including the Kids Online Safety Act, in the Senate.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov lists Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) as a cosponsor of S.1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, with her cosponsorship dated June 11, 2025. The bill’s purpose is to protect the safety of children on the internet.
Sen. Moody’s office said she was introducing the Combating Online Predators Act to protect children from sextortion and framed the effort as part of her work to protect children online. The release says she would continue pushing legislation aimed at online harms to minors.
Axios reported that the House passed the KIDS Act, a kids' online safety package including a version of KOSA, and sent it to the Senate, while key senators said the legislation had little chance of advancing in its current form.
Congress.gov lists S.1748 as introduced on 05/14/2025, read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the tracker shows the bill's status as Introduced, with one action listed.
Congress.gov's cosponsor list for S.1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, lists Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL] with a cosponsor date of 06/11/2025.
The CRS summary says S.1748 requires covered online platforms, including social media platforms, to implement tools and safeguards to protect users and visitors under age 17, exercise reasonable care to prevent and mitigate harm to minors, provide parental tools and reporting mechanisms, and provide FTC and state enforcement.
Moody's Senate office announced she was introducing the Combating Online Predators Act to protect children from sextortion by explicitly criminalizing intentional threats to distribute child sexual abuse material, and quoted Moody saying Congress needs to keep kids safe.
Moody's Senate office announced she was cosponsoring the Stop Sextortion Act, which would make it a federal crime to threaten to distribute CSAM to intimidate, extort, or coerce children, and quoted Moody saying she is fighting in the Senate to keep kids safe.
Assessments
The promise was framed as continuing to fight abusive online platform practices and supporting child online protections, including KOSA, in the Senate, not as guaranteeing enactment of KOSA into law. During her Senate term, Moody cosponsored S.1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, on June 11, 2025, and also introduced or cosponsored related child online safety and sextortion bills. Although KOSA remained pending and had not become law, her Senate cosponsorship and related legislative activity fulfill the promised support and continued advocacy in the same term.
Moody promised to continue fighting abusive online platform practices and support child online protections, including KOSA, in the Senate. The evidence shows she cosponsored S.1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, on June 11, 2025, during her Senate term, and later introduced additional child online safety legislation in January 2026. Because the promise was framed as supporting and continuing to pursue these protections rather than securing final enactment, her cosponsorship and related legislative activity satisfy the commitment in the same term.