Stephanie Sy:
Despite the trend toward removing kids from some momfluencer content, many children's lives are on display on the Internet. And some states are responding with new laws. Last year, Illinois passed a first-of-its-kind law requiring parents to set aside a portion of earnings from social media content that features their kids for their kids.
This year, at least seven other states have introduced similar legislation.
Fortesa Latifi is a features reporter for "Teen Vogue" who has been covering all of this and joins me now.
Fortesa, it's good to have you on the "NewsHour."
I just read a piece that you wrote titled "The Kids Who Had Their Childhoods Made Into Content."
It's about the impacts that living one's life on social media has had on some kids, now adults. Tell me some of the stories you uncovered.
Fortesa Latifi, "Teen Vogue": Yes, it was really interesting.
So I talked to a young woman who has grown up on a YouTube channel. She first went viral when she was a toddler. And by the time she was in elementary school, her parents had quit their full-time jobs because YouTube was the family business.
And she told me: "There's nothing my parents can do now to take back the amount of work I had to put in." And that was so striking to me.
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