A US federal judge ruled Tuesday that Florida cannot enforce a law that requires social media companies to block children 14 years or younger from using their platforms.

Chief US District Judge Mark Walker for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, granted a preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement of the law passed by the Florida legislature in 2024.

Industry trade groups that represent Snap, operator of Snapchat; Google, parent company of YouTube; and Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, filed the lawsuit last October, claiming the law will cause economic harm to the social media companies by requiring them to implement age verification and parental identification processes. “And maintaining those systems ‘will require substantial resources, includi

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