Bipartisan bill takes swing at Big Tech protections

Published March 17, 2021 3:40pm ET



Senators on Wednesday introduced the first bipartisan bill of the new Congress aimed at holding companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter more accountable for their content moderation practices by overhauling their liability protections.

The PACT Act, a bipartisan bill from Sens. Brian Schatz, a Hawaii Democrat, and John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, will focus on content moderation transparency within social media platforms and allows for Big Tech companies to be sued and regulated by federal and state regulators.

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