Protects teens under 17 from algorithmic targeting. Social media companies are barred from using personal data to recommend or promote content to minors.
I will support legislation that protects teens under 17 from algorithmic targeting and limits platforms from using minors' personal data to recommend or promote content.
Occurrences
Evidence
The office posted that Luna introduced the House companion to the PROTECT Act, describing it as a child-safety-online bill that would require websites hosting pornography to verify the age and identity of uploaders.
On the current office homepage, the latest visible update is dated Aug. 29, 2025, and the only visible child-safety-online legislative item is the May 17, 2024 PROTECT Act announcement; no 2026 action matching the claim is visible on the page.
Congress.gov summarizes S.278 as prohibiting social media platforms from using automated systems to suggest or promote content based on personal data collected from users under age 17. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz, not Rep. Luna, and its latest listed status is Senate calendar placement after committee reporting.
Congress.gov states that as of 02/20/2026 no related bill information had been received for S.278, the Kids Off Social Media Act.
The reported S.278 text says it is to prohibit use of personalized recommendation systems on individuals under age 17; it defines those systems as automated systems used to suggest, promote, or rank content based on users' personal data. Section 104 would bar a social media platform from using a child or teen user's personal data in such a system to display content, with limited exceptions.
H.R.7891 defined a personalized recommendation system as an automated system used to suggest, promote, rank, or recommend content based on users' personal data, and would have required platforms to give minors options to opt out of or control personalized recommendation systems.
Congress.gov lists H.R.7891 as sponsored by Rep. Gus Bilirakis, with 64 current cosponsors and latest House action on 09/18/2024. The official expanded cosponsor list reviewed does not include Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.
Rep. Luna's office announced that she introduced the House companion to the PROTECT Act, requiring websites hosting pornography to obtain age and identity verification of individuals uploading pornographic content, require consent and verification for people appearing in content, and remove nonconsensual content at victims' request.
Assessments
The promise was to support legislation specifically limiting algorithmic targeting of teens under 17 and use of minors' personal data for content recommendation or promotion. The closest matching federal bills were S.278 and H.R.7891, but the evidence does not show Rep. Luna sponsoring, cosponsoring, voting for, or otherwise materially advancing them. Luna did introduce the PROTECT Act on online child safety, but that bill addressed pornography upload verification and nonconsensual content removal, not the promised algorithmic-targeting and minors-data restrictions. Because there is no documented Luna support for the relevant legislative outcome, the promise is not delivered, and the related PROTECT Act activity is not close enough to earn an effort badge for this specific pledge.
Luna took a concrete same-term legislative action on online child safety by introducing the House companion to the PROTECT Act, but that measure dealt with pornography-uploader age and identity verification rather than the specific promise to back legislation restricting algorithmic targeting of teens under 17 and limiting the use of minors' personal data to recommend or promote content. On the supplied evidence, there is no clear showing that she sponsored or materially advanced legislation matching the claim's precise policy outcome. That supports partial credit for related action in the same policy area, but not full delivery.