S. 5339 · 117th Congress · Senate

Platform Accountability and Transparency Act

Active· Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced
Dec 21, 22
Passed Senate
Pending
Passed House
Pending
Sent to President
Pending
Signed into Law
Pending

Executive Summary

Platform Accountability and Transparency Act

This bill increases access to the data of large technology platforms (i.e., platforms with at least 50 million unique monthly users in the United States) in order to facilitate research concerning activities on those platforms, particularly by requiring platforms to disclose data to researchers who participate in a research program jointly established by the National Science Foundation and the Federal Trade Commission.