People hurt by a social media recommendation system could sue a large platform in federal court. The bill would remove some Section 230 protection when the platform failed to use reasonable care and that failure helped cause injury or death.
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Algorithm Accountability Act is a House bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Latest action on H.R. 6266: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Who this affects: This bill mainly affects people who are physically hurt after a social media recommendation system helps drive harmful conduct, and the large platforms that run those systems. It also affects families or legal representatives who may bring a case for a child, a disabled person, or someone who died. Smaller platforms and several types of online services would mostly fall outside the bill.
Why this matters: This bill matters because it would give injured people a clearer way to challenge harmful recommendation systems in court. Today, Section 230 can block many lawsuits that try to treat platforms as responsible for user content. This bill would narrow that shield when a platform’s own recommendation system was carelessly built or run and helped cause foreseeable injury or death. It could push large platforms to test and manage safety risks more carefully, but courts would still have to decide what “reasonable care” and “reasonably foreseeable” mean in real cases.
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