United States of America: Platform Accountability and Transparency Act amended with requirement of disclosure of statistics on algorithm amplification of content

On 23 June 2022, SB-1018, the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, was amended by the California State Assembly. Under the current version of the Bill, social media platforms with at least 1 million unique monthly users would be required to make public on an annual basis, starting from 1 July 2023 at the latest, statistics regarding the extent to which content determined as violating the platform's policies was amplified by platform algorithms before and after such a determination. In addition, platforms will have to disaggregate the information based on the policy violation.