The Senate-passed Kids Online Safety Act is reportedly facing Big Tech opposition seeking to sow discord between conservatives and progressives by leveraging culture-war issues like gender and sex dysphoria and abortion to stop the bill in the narrowly divided House.

“On the left and the right, they’ve tried to say whatever the cultural red flag is,” Issue One’s Alix Fraser told the Journal, who leads a group seeking to reduce lobbyist influence in politics.

Big Tech giants Meta and Alphabet’s Google have poured nearly $90 million the past three years in lobbying tied to related topics to avoid regulations and mandates outlined in the Senate’s Online Kid Safety Bill crafted by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

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