; or (2) retain any information collected from a user as part of the age verification process except to the extent necessary to prove that the platform has taken reasonable steps to verify the age of the user. (c) Rule of construction Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a social media platform to require users to provide government-issued identification for age verification. (d) Existing accounts A social media platform shall not be required to verify the age of account holders on the platform for any account that, as of the date of enactment of this Act, has existed for 90 days or more, until 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. (e) Unverified accounts A social media platform shall not permit an individual to create a user account (or continue to use an existing user account after the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act) if the individual's age has not been verified. (f) Safe harbor A social media platform that, for age verification purposes, relies in good faith on information provided by the Pilot Program described in section 7 to verify the age of a user shall be deemed to have taken reasonable steps to verify the age of that user on the platform. 4. No children under 13 A social media platform shall not permit an individual to use the platform (other than merely viewing content, as long as such viewing does not involve logging in or interacting with the content or other users) unless the individual is known or reasonably believed to be age 13 or older according to the age verification process used by the platform. 5. Parent or guardian consent for minors (a) In general A social media platform shall take reasonable steps beyond merely requiring attestation, taking into account current parent or guardian relationship verification technologies and documentation, to require the affirmative consent of a parent or guardian to create an account for any individual who the social media platform knows or reasonably believes to be a minor according to the age