United States of America: Reintroduction of Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act

On 23 March 2021, the "Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act" was reintroduced to the US House of Representatives. The Act aims to limit liability protections in section 230 of the Communications Act when platform algorithms utilize ranking algorithms that are not understandable and transparent on the basis of how information is displayed. Particularly, the Act guarantees protection to services that implement algorithms that sort information chronologically, by average user rating or reviews, alphabetically, randomly and by the number of views or interactions.