The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Mississippi to enforce a state law that requires the nation’s largest social media companies to verify the age of their users and obtain parental consent for minors,

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue of growing national concern. The justices rejected an emergency appeal from a tech industry group representing major platforms like Facebook,

The US Supreme Court has rebuffed the country’s biggest social media platforms, letting Mississippi enforce a law for now that will impose age-verification and parental-consent requirements while the legal fight goes forward.