Caitlin Vogus

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder · 3686 - Why Big Tech Wants Age Verification; SCOTUS Corruption w/ Caitlin Vogus, Alex Aronson · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And they're trying to uncover the reporter's confidential sources.

And this has been a repeated theme by this administration.

They want to go after the confidential sources and the whistleblowers who are helping journalists hold them to account.

And so the way that these laws could impact that is by essentially chipping away at or even destroying anonymity online.

And we know that one of the ways that journalists connect with confidential sources is through online communications.

And in the past, we've seen the Trump administration, but also other administrations, try to target journalists' emails, for example, to see who are they emailing with, who are their confidential sources they're talking with.

And so if all of a sudden you have to prove your identity to use a social media platform, that opens up a whole new pot of data that the Trump administration or a future administration could target to try to discover who are journalists talking to on social media.

Send a legal demand to the tech company and make them tell us.

And so that's extremely concerning when we need confidential sources and whistleblowers more than ever to know that we could be opening a whole other avenue for the government to crack down on it.

Well, lawmakers are usually careful to say that they don't intend the legislation to impact encrypted services.

But I know the Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken a look at the Kids Act and they say buried within the bill, there are hints that it could impact encryption as well because of the liability regime that it could make platforms liable if they don't take action on certain content.

And then the issue becomes,

Well, if it's encrypted, the platform's not supposed to know what content is being shared.

So how could they possibly take action on certain content?

So it's complicated.

But I think the answer is that there's at least the possibility it could impact encrypted communications, which is very concerning.

We always recommend at Freedom of the Press Foundation that journalists

use secure communication tools like signal if they're going to talk with confidential sources but the truth is that some sources also are not sophisticated and so they might make their initial outreach to reporters through unencrypted platforms just on social media and so in that case the bill really comes into play again with the issue around age verification and platforms collecting people's identifying information

Sure.

So with VPN usage, what we've seen with bills around the country, so in different states, they've passed laws that require age verification, maybe banning kids under a certain age from certain social media platforms.

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