United States of America: Senator released draft of TRUMP AMERICA AI Act including content moderation regulation

On 18 March 2026, a United States Senator released a discussion draft of The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act. The Sunset Section 230 Act (Section 302) would repeal Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, removing the civil liability shield for online platforms in respect of third-party content, with effect 2 years after enactment. The Kids Online Safety Act (Section 412) would require covered platforms to exercise reasonable care in the creation and implementation of any design feature to prevent and mitigate harms to minors, including eating disorders, substance use disorders, suicidal behaviours, compulsive usage, physical violence, online harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, distribution or use of narcotic drugs, tobacco products, cannabis products, gambling, or alcohol, and financial harms. Section 413(c) would require covered platforms to establish an internal process to substantively respond to reports of harms to a minor not later than 10 days after receipt for platforms averaging more than 10'000'000 active users monthly in the United States, or 21 days for smaller platforms, and as promptly as needed in the case of imminent threats to the safety of a minor. Section 413(d) would prohibit covered platforms from facilitating the advertising of narcotic drugs, cannabis products, tobacco products, gambling, or alcohol to any individual that the covered platform knows is a minor. The GUARD Act (Section 502) would establish criminal offences for designing, developing, or making available an AI chatbot with reckless disregard for the risk that the chatbot solicits minors into sexually explicit conduct or encourages suicide, self-injury, or physical or sexual violence, with a penalty of USD 100'000 per offence. The NO FAKES Act (Section 1202) would require online service providers, upon valid notification, to remove or disable access to unauthorised digital replicas as soon as technically and practically feasible, and to proactively remove all publicly available instances matching the digital fingerprint of an identified replica uploaded after valid notice.