N.Y. General Business Law § 1520: Definitions

* § 1520. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following

terms shall have the following meanings:

1. "Addictive feed" shall mean as defined in subdivision one of

section fifteen hundred of this chapter.

2. "Addictive feature" shall mean an addictive feed, autoplay, and/or

infinite scroll.

3. "Addictive feature platform" shall mean a social media platform

which offers or provides covered users an addictive feed, autoplay,

and/or infinite scroll as a significant part of the services provided by

such social media platform.

4. "Autoplay" shall mean when content is automatically played without

any manual input from a covered user.

5. "Content" shall have the same meaning as subdivision two of section

eleven hundred of this chapter.

6. "Covered operator" shall mean any person, business, or other legal

entity and its agents and affiliates who operate or provide an addictive

feature platform.

7. "Covered user" shall mean a user of an addictive feature platform

in New York, not acting as an operator, or agent or affiliate of the

operator of such addictive feature platform or any portion thereof.

8. "Infinite scroll" shall mean when a feed or landing page, whether

or not such feed is addictive as defined in subdivision one of this

section, automatically loads and displays additional content at the

bottom or other visible end of such feed or landing page from the

prospective of the user without any manual input, other than scrolling,

from a user.

9. "Social media platform" shall have the same meaning as subdivision

five of section eleven hundred of this chapter.

* NB Effective January 1, 2027