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Into the Metaverse: The Money and Motivations Behind Meta’s App Store Gambit

Summary by ACT | The App Association
In May 2025, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representative John James (R-MI) introduced the App Store Accountability Act (ASAA), a bill that would require app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for users under 18. Meta has bankrolled a wildly expensive lobbying campaign to enact ASAA and its state-level analogs, and instead of recoiling in horror at taking kid privacy advice from Meta, some lawmakers are credulously going alon…
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ACT | The App Association broke the news in on Friday, May 23, 2025.
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