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The bill increases accountability and incentivizes safer recommendation algorithms—potentially reducing algorithm-driven harm—at the cost of greater liability exposure, legal uncertainty, and likely changes to platform features and economics that could reduce services or raise costs for users and advertisers.
Users (including minors) can hold platforms financially liable when recommendation algorithms foreseeably cause bodily injury or death, increasing accountability and potential compensation for victims.
Users (especially younger users) would benefit because platforms are incentivized to test and improve algorithm safety, which could reduce harmful recommendations and related injuries.
Users and platforms retain First Amendment limits on enforcement, reducing the risk that enforcement would be used to punish protected speech based on viewpoint.
For-profit social media platforms may face large liability and punitive damages costs, which could raise prices for advertisers, reduce free services or features, and decrease investment in platforms.
Users (especially young adults) may experience reduced functionality because platforms could restrict or remove algorithmic features or personalized recommendations to lower legal risk, degrading discovery and user experience.
Platforms, state governments, and federal agencies could face litigation and regulatory uncertainty because ambiguities in definitions and exclusions may leave unclear which services and algorithms are covered.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates civil liability and strips §230 immunity for large social platforms whose recommendation algorithms, through lack of reasonable care, foreseeably cause bodily injury or death.
Official title: To amend section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 to limit liability protection under that section for certain social media platforms, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 21, 2025 by Mike Kennedy · Last progress November 21, 2025
Creates a new cause of action and civil liability for large, for‑profit social media platforms that use recommendation-based algorithms if those algorithms, through negligent design, testing, deployment, operation, or maintenance, foreseeably cause bodily injury or death. The bill removes Section 230(c)(1) immunity for such violations, allows victims to recover compensatory and punitive damages, invalidates predispute arbitration and class‑action waiver clauses for these claims, and lets states enforce laws at least as protective. It narrowly defines covered platforms and recommendation algorithms, exempts smaller and many private or specialized services, preserves First Amendment limits on enforcement, and makes several technical conforming edits to other federal statutes.