S. 5226 — Parental Approval for Youth Social Media Act of 2026

This section requires social media platform providers to obtain verifiable parental consent before allowing a child to create or maintain an account and to designate any such account as parent-supervised. It directs providers to take reasonable steps to determine whether users are children and whether consent and supervision requirements are met, prohibits other uses of the collected information, and requires its deletion when the user turns 16 or deletes the account. The Federal Trade Commission may issue regulations on age verification, consent methods, and supervised account standards, with enforcement by the Commission and state attorneys general.