Sponsor
Scott Perry
Representative · R-PA
Representative · R-PA
The bill increases public and congressional transparency and accountability over federal contacts with online platforms, while raising risks of administrative burdens, reputational harms, chilled security/public‑health collaboration, and legal uncertainty for agencies and platform personnel.
Taxpayers and the public: federal agencies must disclose communications with online platforms about moderating lawful speech, giving Congress and the public clearer, consolidated insight into executive-branch influence on online content.
Federal employees and oversight bodies: mandatory IG compliance reviews and required briefings for noncompliance create stronger internal accountability and a clearer enforcement path when agencies fail to follow the disclosure rules.
Investigators, reporters, and civil-society groups: reports identifying platform employees and actions make it easier to trace coordination patterns and evaluate whether government requests influenced content moderation.
Federal employees and agency operations: compiling detailed five-year records and disclosure packages will increase administrative workload and legal exposure, diverting time and resources from mission work.
Public‑private security and public‑health partners: identifying individual agency officers and platform employees in reports could chill routine information-sharing and cooperation on national security or public-health threats.
Platform staff, individual contractors, and small organizations: being named in unclassified reports could cause reputational harm or legal exposure for routine or advisory communications.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires executive agencies to report past communications with online platforms about moderating lawful speech and directs OMB and agency IGs to consolidate, audit, and deliver reports to Congress.
Requires federal executive branch agencies to disclose recent communications with online platforms about moderating or restricting lawful speech and directs OMB and agency Inspectors General to collect, review, consolidate, audit, and deliver those disclosures to Congress. Agencies must provide a five‑year retrospective list within 90 days; OMB must deliver an unclassified report (with optional classified annex) and agency IGs must audit compliance and report to Congress within 210 days.
Official title: To require the Office of Management and Budget to report to Congress on actions taken by executive branch employees to censor lawful speech, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 3, 2026 by Scott Perry · Last progress June 3, 2026