David’s Legacy Foundation
David’s Legacy Foundation is a Texas-based organization that seeks to prevent child cyber-bullying through education and political advocacy. 1 David’s Legacy Foundation has supported federal content moderation policies that would limit the amount of potentially harmful content accessible to children on social media. 2
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Background
David’s Legacy Foundation was founded in 2016 after David Bartlett Molak of San Antonio, Texas committed suicide after experiencing cyber-bullying. 3
Finances
In 2022, David’s Legacy Foundation received $153,195 in contributions, 4 $156,078 in total revenue, 5 made $ 68,448 in expenditures, 6 and held $87,630 in net assets. 7
Education
David’s Legacy Foundation provides cyber-bullying prevention presentations to students in high school, middle school, grades 3 to 5 and kindergarten to 2nd grade. 1
These presentations help define and distinguish cyber-bullying from other negative behaviors, highlight the criminal consequences of cyber-bullying, and provide students with tools to seek help and report cyber-bullying. 1 In addition to student-oriented presentations, David’s Legacy provides educator-oriented lessons on how to identify signs of cyber-bullying. 1
ParentsSOS
David’s Legacy Foundation, in conjunction with Fairplay, sponsors the ParentsSOS project organization. 8
In 2024, ParentsSOS supported a federal bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would limit the amount of pro-suicide, bullying, sexual exploitation, drug promotion, and eating disorder promotion content accessible to children on social media platforms through content moderation. 9
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF), a left-of-center pro-open source and anti-content moderation organization, 10 has criticized KOSA for limiting teenagers’ access to information, highlighting that arguably pro-LGBT content would be banned under KOSA, and more generally argued that the law violates the First Amendment. 11 EEF has also criticized KOSA for placing the enforcement provisions of KOSA in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. 11
David’s Law
In 2019, through political advocacy, David’s Legacy pushed a cyber-bullying prevention bill through the Texas Legislature. 2 The bill, named David’s Law, requires public schools in Texas to provide students with education on the negative impacts of cyber-bullying, including the criminal consequences of cyber-bullying for bullies. 2
In addition to cyber-bullying prevention lessons, the bill requires that public schools investigate off-campus cyber-bullying if it materially impacts a student’s education, requires schools to incorporate suicide prevention training into health classes, and requires that schools provide students with an anonymous hotline to report suspected cyber-bullying to school authorities. 2
AI and Children’s Safety
In 2025, David’s Legacy Foundation’s co-founder Maurine Molak signed a petition titled “The National Declaration on AI and Kids’ Safety.” The petition highlights documented cases where AI-driven tools such as chatbots and recommendation algorithms, exposed minors to sexually explicit content, psychological manipulation, and harmful advice. It argued that AI products have prioritized engagement and profit over child safety and are deployed without adequate testing or oversight. The petition also called for the implementation of core safety principles such as bans on manipulative AI design, minimal and protected data collection, full parental transparency, and independent safety auditing. It also urges Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to remove liability shields for AI-generated or algorithmically promoted content. The petition also claimed AI products that pose inherent risks to minors should face product liability and, if necessary, be banned. 12
Leadership
Mathew M. Molak, David Bartlett Molak’s father, is the president of David’s Legacy Foundation. 13