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Reintroduced bill would require tech transparency reporting First bipartisan effort in 2021 to reform tech’s liability shield March 17, 2021 2:48 PM By Rebecca Kern (Updates with industry reactions beginning in ninth paragraph.) Senators are releasing the first bipartisan bill of the year to overhaul technology platforms’ liability shield a week before the chief executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter testify before Congress about the prevalence of misinformation online. The Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, reintroduced Wednesday by S...

State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Texas, tells ‘Fox & Friends First’ that reforms are needed because Section 230 gives Big Tech ‘so much power.’ Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz and Republican Sen. John Thune on Wednesday rolled out a bipartisan bill that would increase "accountability" for Big Tech companies and enhance transparency regarding content moderation for users, in an effort to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The bill, titled the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act and also known as the "PACT Act," would preserve the benefits of Section 230 — a ...

Email* Submit Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook and Twitter from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure -- just 26 words known as Section 230 -- now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-President Donald Trump's loyalists. Trump and his GOP allies claim Section 230 gives companies leeway to ...

Internet Firms’ Liability Protection Under Fire. 26 Words and What’s at Stake Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure — just 26 words known as Section 230 — now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-President Donald Trump’s loyalists. “No p...

Back to the Future for Section 230 Reform The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (JStephanMease, https://tinyurl.com/y6v5bjvy; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is on the agenda for both Congress and the Biden administration this year—all the more so after the renewed discussion around technology platforms sparked by the U.S. Capitol riot and President Trump’s subsequent deplatforming from major social media platforms. Just recently, members of Congress and congressional aides reported conversations with th...