"A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans. Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act Wednesday, which seeks to amend [PDF] section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to force a duty of care on social media platforms. That duty, says the duo, requires platforms to abandon algorithms that push harmful content."
"The proposed law would carve a loophole into section 230 to hold companies liable if a court found that their recommendation algorithms pushed content that radicalized an individual, leading to bodily injury or death, in a way that "a reasonable person would see as foreseeable and attributable to the algorithm." The bill also proposes to invalidate pre-dispute arbitration agreements and joint action waivers included in terms of use for social media platforms."
The Algorithm Accountability Act would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to impose a duty of care on social media platforms and require them to stop using algorithms that push harmful content. The bill would allow courts to find platforms liable if their recommendation algorithms foreseeably radicalize an individual and cause bodily injury or death. The proposal would also invalidate pre-dispute arbitration clauses and joint action waivers in platform terms of use. Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) promote the bill as a response to algorithm-driven addiction, violence, and self-harm. Passage faces substantial legal and political uncertainty.
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