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Arkansas
Act 900 of 2025 (SB611), Social Media Safety Act amendments (addictive design)
Act 900 of 2025 (SB611), amending Ark. Code Ann. § 4-88-1401 et seq.
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Enjoined: enforcement paused by a court, effective 5 August 2025.
A social media and minors rule binding private bodies.
As of 15 July 2026.
What this law does
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Amends the Social Media Safety Act to lower the covered minor age from 18 to 16, prohibit addictive design features, require default privacy settings, and disable non-essential notifications between 10 PM and 6 AM. Signed April 21, 2025; most provisions took effect August 5, 2025, while the addictive design and notification duties in Section 2 carried a delayed effective date of April 21, 2026, one year after enactment.
Who enforces it
Litigation
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
- Docket
- NetChoice, LLC v. Griffin, No. 5:25-cv-05140 (W.D. Ark.)
- Posture
- Preliminarily enjoined on April 20, 2026, one day before the delayed addictive design provisions were to take effect; the injunction has been reported as on appeal to the Eighth Circuit.
What it reaches
Age threshold
16
Covered services
Social media platforms as statutorily defined.
Verification methods
Gov ID, Digital ID
When LexLint raises it
operates_social_platform
Read the law
official act text, Arkansas State Legislature
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