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The bill increases user safety and expands remedies for victims of harmful recommendation algorithms, but it also raises litigation and compliance costs for platforms, risks chilling lawful speech and personalization, and creates legal uncertainty that could burden mid-sized services and developers.
Users—particularly children, youth, parents, and young adults—are less likely to suffer algorithm-driven bodily injury or death because platforms must exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable physical harms from recommendation algorithms.
People injured or families of deceased users can sue platforms for compensatory and punitive damages, increasing legal remedies and potential compensation for harms caused by recommendation algorithms.
Limits on arbitration clauses and class-action waivers make it easier for individuals to bring claims in court, improving access to justice for those harmed by platform algorithms.
Platform companies (and thus employees and some service users) face higher litigation risk and potentially large liability because they could lose §230(c)(1) immunity, raising operating costs and possibly reducing features or raising prices.
The threat of broad civil exposure including punitive damages may push platforms to restrict speech or overhaul personalization and recommendation systems, reducing content diversity and personalization for users (especially young people and families).
Mid-sized and niche online services with under 1,000,000 users could still face significant compliance, auditing, and redesign costs to meet the bill's standards, straining smaller businesses and engineering teams.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes Section 230 immunity and creates civil liability for social media platforms that fail to exercise reasonable care in recommendation algorithms that foreseeably cause bodily injury or death, and voids related arbitration/class-waiver clauses.
Introduced November 21, 2025 by Mike Kennedy · Last progress November 21, 2025
Creates a duty of care for social media platforms that use recommendation-based algorithms, requiring reasonable design, testing, deployment, and maintenance to prevent reasonably foreseeable bodily injury or death caused in whole or in part by those algorithms. Platforms that violate the duty lose Section 230(c)(1) immunity and can be sued for compensatory and punitive damages (including on behalf of minors); predispute arbitration clauses and class-action waivers are void for these claims. Also defines covered terms (like “recommendation-based algorithm” and “social media platform”), sets a user-count exemption for very small platforms, preserves First Amendment viewpoint protections, and updates several unrelated federal statutes with technical/conforming edits to short titles or text.