Digital Social Platform Transparency Act

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Exposure to toxic content
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Compromise of privacy
• False or misleading information
• Pollution of information ecosystem
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal to good coverage of approximately 5-6 subdomains, with primary focus on toxic content exposure (1.2), privacy compromise (2.1), false information (3.1), information pollution (3.2), and lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in content moderation, transparency, and platform governance domains.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically digital social platforms including social media platforms and online games. It may also have limited application to Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation sector for online gaming platforms.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute enacted by the United States Congress with mandatory compliance requirements, specific enforcement mechanisms including administrative penalties up to $15,000 per violation per day, and exclusive enforcement authority granted to the Attorney General.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document is titled as an 'Act' and references 'the date of enactment of this Act,' indicating it was proposed and enacted by the United States Congress as federal legislation.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer
• Entities: Digital social companies operating digital social platforms including social media platforms and online games with users in the United States and generating more than $100,000,000 in gross revenue
• Summary: The Act explicitly targets 'digital social companies' defined as entities that own or operate digital social platforms (social media platforms and online games) meeting specific criteria including U.S. users and revenue thresholds.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Attorney General of the United States
• Summary: The Attorney General is explicitly designated as the enforcement authority with exclusive power to bring actions for violations and to receive compliance reports.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Attorney General of the United States
• Summary: The Attorney General receives semiannual reports from digital social companies and maintains a public searchable repository of all terms of service reports, establishing their monitoring role.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on transparency requirements for deployed content moderation systems and ongoing monitoring of their performance. It does not substantively cover earlier stages like planning, data collection, or model building.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document implicitly addresses AI systems through references to 'automated content moderation systems' and 'artificial intelligence software' used for content flagging and actioning. It does not explicitly define or mention AI models, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.