Contact Congress about S. 3193: Algorithm Accountability Act

This bill removes legal protections for large social media platforms when their recommendation algorithms contribute to bodily injury or death. Injured people could sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages. Platforms would need to use reasonable care in designing and operating their recommendation systems.

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Algorithm Accountability Act is a Senate bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Latest action on S. 3193: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Who this affects: The bill primarily targets large, for-profit social media platforms that use recommendation algorithms, while also creating new legal options for people harmed by those systems.

Why this matters: Recommendation algorithms shape what billions of people see online every day. This bill directly addresses growing concerns that these systems can amplify harmful content in ways that lead to real-world physical harm.

Key provisions in S. 3193

• Large, for-profit social media platforms would face a legal duty of reasonable care in how they design, train, test, deploy, operate, and maintain their recommendation algorithms.
• The duty applies when bodily injury or death is reasonably foreseeable and at least partly caused by the algorithm's design or performance.
• Both harms to users and harms that users cause to others are covered, as long as the harm comes from the operation of a recommendation algorithm.
• Chronological or reverse-chronological feeds are excluded from the duty, as are the first page of results from a user-initiated search.
• Enforcement cannot target the viewpoint of any user or content provider when the speech is protected by the First Amendment.

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Questions people ask about S. 3193

What is S. 3193?

This bill removes legal protections for large social media platforms when their recommendation algorithms contribute to bodily injury or death. Injured people could sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages. Platforms would need to use reasonable care in designing and operating their recommendation systems.

How do I support or oppose S. 3193?

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Who should I contact about S. 3193?

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