SECTION 1.
The people of the State of California find as follows:(a) Subdivision (a) of Section 1714 of the Civil Code already makes every person and corporation, including social media platforms, financially responsible for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person.
(b) Children are uniquely vulnerable on social media platforms.
(c) The biggest social media platforms invent and deploy features they know injure large numbers of children, including contributing to child deaths.
(d) The costs of these injuries are unfairly being paid by parents, schools, and taxpayers, not the platforms.
(e) This act is necessary to ensure that the social media platforms that are knowingly causing the most severe injuries to the largest number of children receive heightened damages to prevent injury from occurring to children in the first place.