The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent in a challenge by a trade group whose members include Meta's Facebook,

The Supreme Court will allow Mississippi to enforce a law requiring social media sites verify the age of users or receive parental consent as it awaits a legal challenge—but Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed skeptical the law is constitutional.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue of growing national concern.