New Yorkers will need to prove they’re adults before continuing to scroll through their social media feeds starting this January. The regulations released Tuesday require large social media platforms to use third-party systems to document age. Trade groups representing social media companies lobbied against the measure. Several teenagers spoke in the governor’s office about navigating adolescence in the age of social media. “There is more work to do to protect kids from the risks of AI and social media, but this law and its final rules are groundbreaking.”