; (vii) reporting or disseminating news; (viii) providing other kinds of information concerning businesses, products, or travel information, including user reviews or rankings of such businesses, products, or other travel information; (ix) providing educational information or instruction on behalf of or in support of an elementary school or secondary school, as such terms are defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ); (x) facilitating electronic mail or direct messaging between users (except for message boards or applications where users can add themselves to messaging groups consisting of large numbers of users) consisting of text, photos, or videos that are not posted publicly and are visible only to the senders and recipients; or (xi) any other function that provides content to end users but does not allow the dissemination of user-generated content. 3. Reasonable steps for age verification (a) In general A social media platform shall take reasonable steps beyond merely requiring attestation, taking into account existing age verification technologies, to verify the age of individuals who are account holders on the platform. (b) Restriction on use and retention of information A social media platform shall not— (1) use any information collected as part of the platform's age verification process for any other purpose