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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 626 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To improve the communications between social media platforms and law |
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| 6 | 6 | | enforcement agencies, to establish the Federal Trade Commission Plat- |
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| 7 | 7 | | form Safety Advisory Committee, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY19, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | COTTof Florida (for himself and Mrs. SHAHEEN) introduced the fol- |
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| 12 | 12 | | lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Com- |
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| 13 | 13 | | merce, Science, and Transportation |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To improve the communications between social media plat- |
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| 16 | 16 | | forms and law enforcement agencies, to establish the |
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| 17 | 17 | | Federal Trade Commission Platform Safety Advisory |
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| 18 | 18 | | Committee, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Online Con-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | fusion for Investigative Agencies and Law-enforcement by 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Maintaining Evidence Determined Interparty Arrange-6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ments Act’’ or the ‘‘SOCIAL MEDIA Act’’. 7 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. BETTER INVESTIGATION COMMUNICATIONS. 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) L |
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| 31 | 31 | | AWENFORCEMENT PORTAL.—Not later than 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each social 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | media platform shall— 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) create a law enforcement portal that meets 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | the requirements described in subsection (b) to pro-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | vide— 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (A) clear information to law enforcement 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | on who in the company to contact regarding 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | any law enforcement matter; and 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (B) if the company has outsourced their 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | law enforcement compliance work to a third 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | party, the contact information of the third 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | party; and 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) publish on the homepage of the social media 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | platform a link to such law enforcement portal. 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (b) R |
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| 47 | 47 | | EQUIREMENTS.—The law enforcement portal 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | created under subsection (a) shall include— 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (1) the name of and contact information for the 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | lead point of contact for law enforcement for the so-20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | cial media platform; 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) the phone number (which shall connect to 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | a United States-based call center that is staffed on 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | a 24/7 basis) and email address a law enforcement 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | agency may use to contact the social media platform; 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | and 26 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (3) clear policy information related to law en-1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | forcement investigations, such as what, if any, notice 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | is provided to the users of such platform in connec-3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | tion with any law enforcement investigation and 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | when such notice is provided. 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | SEC. 3. IMPROVING DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING. 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (a) FTC P |
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| 67 | 67 | | LATFORM SAFETYADVISORYCOM-7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | MITTEE.— 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (1) E |
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| 70 | 70 | | STABLISHMENT.— 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (A) I |
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| 72 | 72 | | N GENERAL.—There is established the 10 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Federal Trade Commission Platform Safety Ad-11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | visory Committee (in this section referred to as 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | the ‘‘Advisory Committee’’). 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (B) P |
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| 77 | 77 | | URPOSE.—The purpose of the Advi-14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | sory Committee is to provide recommendations 15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | to the Commission for the development of uni-16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | form reporting metrics on— 17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (i) social media platforms’— 18 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (I) monitoring or removal of ille-19 |
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| 83 | 83 | | gal or illicit content on their plat-20 |
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| 84 | 84 | | forms; and 21 |
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| 85 | 85 | | (II) collaboration with or referral 22 |
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| 86 | 86 | | to law enforcement regarding such 23 |
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| 87 | 87 | | content; and 24 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (ii) the responsiveness of such social 1 |
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| 92 | 92 | | media platforms to law enforcement inquir-2 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ies and other relevant metrics as deter-3 |
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| 94 | 94 | | mined by the Commission. 4 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (2) M |
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| 96 | 96 | | EMBERSHIP.— 5 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (A) C |
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| 98 | 98 | | OMPOSITION.—The Advisory Com-6 |
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| 99 | 99 | | mittee shall be composed of 11 members, each 7 |
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| 100 | 100 | | appointed by the Chair, to serve 3-year terms— 8 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (i) 1 of whom shall be a representa-9 |
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| 102 | 102 | | tive from the Commission; 10 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (ii) 1 of whom shall be a representa-11 |
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| 104 | 104 | | tive from the Drug Enforcement Adminis-12 |
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| 105 | 105 | | tration; 13 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (iii) 1 of whom shall be a representa-14 |
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| 107 | 107 | | tive from U.S. Immigration and Customs 15 |
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| 108 | 108 | | Enforcement, Homeland Security Inves-16 |
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| 109 | 109 | | tigations; 17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (iv) 1 of whom shall be a representa-18 |
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| 111 | 111 | | tive of social media platforms; 19 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (v) 1 of whom shall be a representa-20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | tive of local law enforcement agencies; 21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (vi) 1 of whom shall be a representa-22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | tive of transparency advocates that comes 23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | from a nonprofit, non-governmental orga-24 |
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| 117 | 117 | | nization (commonly referred to as an 25 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘NGO’’), or think tank which does not re-1 |
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| 122 | 122 | | ceive more than 10 percent of their fund-2 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ing support (including the value of any in- 3 |
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| 124 | 124 | | kind contribution) from a social media 4 |
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| 125 | 125 | | platform or related company; 5 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (vii) 1 of whom shall be a representa-6 |
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| 127 | 127 | | tive from a State investigative agency; 7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (viii) 1 of whom shall be a representa-8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | tive from the Federal Bureau of Investiga-9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | tion; 10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (ix) 1 of whom shall be a representa-11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | tive of victims or a victim’s advocacy orga-12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | nization which does not receive funding 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | support from a social media platform or 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | related company; 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (x) 1 of whom shall be a representa-16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | tive from the United States Marshals Serv-17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | ice; and 18 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (xi) 1 of whom shall be a representa-19 |
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| 140 | 140 | | tive of the Criminal Division of the De-20 |
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| 141 | 141 | | partment of Justice. 21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (B) D |
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| 143 | 143 | | ATE.—The Chair shall make the ap-22 |
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| 144 | 144 | | pointments described in subparagraph (A) as 23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | soon as possible after the date of enactment of 24 |
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| 146 | 146 | | this Act. 25 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (C) TERM LIMITATION.—An individual 1 |
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| 151 | 151 | | may not serve more than 3 terms as a member 2 |
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| 152 | 152 | | of the Advisory Committee. 3 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (D) N |
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| 154 | 154 | | O COMPENSATION FOR MEMBERS .— 4 |
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| 155 | 155 | | Each member of the Advisory Committee shall 5 |
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| 156 | 156 | | serve without compensation in addition to any 6 |
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| 157 | 157 | | compensation received for the service of the 7 |
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| 158 | 158 | | member as an officer or employee of the United 8 |
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| 159 | 159 | | States, if applicable. 9 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (3) D |
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| 161 | 161 | | UTIES.— 10 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (A) I |
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| 163 | 163 | | N GENERAL.—The Advisory Com-11 |
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| 164 | 164 | | mittee shall— 12 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (i) provide recommendations to the 13 |
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| 166 | 166 | | Commission on— 14 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (I) developing and updating re-15 |
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| 168 | 168 | | porting metrics in accordance with 16 |
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| 169 | 169 | | subparagraph (B); and 17 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (II) periodically updating, as the 18 |
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| 171 | 171 | | Commission determines necessary, the 19 |
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| 172 | 172 | | reporting metrics described in sub-20 |
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| 173 | 173 | | clause (I) through notice and com-21 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ment rulemaking; and 22 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (ii) not later than 1 year after the 23 |
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| 176 | 176 | | date of enactment of this Act, and annu-24 |
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| 177 | 177 | | ally thereafter, publish, in a single, publicly 25 |
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| 181 | 181 | | available report that allows comparison be-1 |
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| 182 | 182 | | tween social media platforms, the informa-2 |
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| 183 | 183 | | tion provided under the reporting metrics 3 |
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| 184 | 184 | | described in clause (i). 4 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (B) R |
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| 186 | 186 | | EPORTING METRICS.—The reporting 5 |
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| 187 | 187 | | metrics described in subparagraph (A)(i) shall 6 |
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| 188 | 188 | | include, with respect to a social media plat-7 |
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| 189 | 189 | | form— 8 |
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| 190 | 190 | | (i) the number of accounts on which 9 |
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| 191 | 191 | | the social media platform has identified an 10 |
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| 192 | 192 | | advertisement for or promotion of counter-11 |
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| 193 | 193 | | feit substances or fentanyl, including the 12 |
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| 194 | 194 | | number of such accounts that were identi-13 |
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| 195 | 195 | | fied— 14 |
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| 196 | 196 | | (I) through a user report; and 15 |
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| 197 | 197 | | (II) by the platform without the 16 |
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| 198 | 198 | | use of a user report; 17 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (ii) metrics relating to the social 18 |
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| 200 | 200 | | media platform’s procedure, if any, for re-19 |
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| 201 | 201 | | ferring to law enforcement any account 20 |
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| 202 | 202 | | that advertises or otherwise promotes 21 |
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| 203 | 203 | | counterfeit substances or fentanyl, includ-22 |
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| 204 | 204 | | ing— 23 |
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| 205 | 205 | | (I) whether the platform notifies 24 |
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| 206 | 206 | | the account holder of such referral; 25 |
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| 210 | 210 | | (II) to which law enforcement 1 |
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| 211 | 211 | | agencies the platform makes such re-2 |
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| 212 | 212 | | ferral; and 3 |
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| 213 | 213 | | (III) how many such referrals the 4 |
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| 214 | 214 | | platform has made during the pre-5 |
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| 215 | 215 | | vious 12-month period; 6 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (iii) during the previous 12-month pe-7 |
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| 217 | 217 | | riod, on average, the number of orders 8 |
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| 218 | 218 | | under section 2703(d) of title 18, United 9 |
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| 219 | 219 | | States Code, subpoenas, and search war-10 |
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| 220 | 220 | | rants received by the social media platform 11 |
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| 221 | 221 | | per month related to accounts on the plat-12 |
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| 222 | 222 | | form that are being used for illicit activity; 13 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (iv) the social media platform’s aver-14 |
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| 224 | 224 | | age response time (not including any auto-15 |
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| 225 | 225 | | mated response or response confirming re-16 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ceipt by the platform) with respect to a 17 |
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| 227 | 227 | | subpoena issued by a law enforcement 18 |
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| 228 | 228 | | agency; and 19 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (v) any other reporting metrics on ille-20 |
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| 230 | 230 | | gal or illicit content (including human traf-21 |
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| 231 | 231 | | ficking, child exploitation, or other crimes), 22 |
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| 232 | 232 | | as determined appropriate by the Advisory 23 |
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| 233 | 233 | | Committee. 24 |
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| 234 | 234 | | (b) A |
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| 235 | 235 | | DOPTION OFREPORTINGMETRICS.— 25 |
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| 239 | 239 | | (1) REVIEW OF RECOMMENDATIONS .—Not later 1 |
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| 240 | 240 | | than 30 days after the date on which the Advisory 2 |
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| 241 | 241 | | Committee provides its recommendations to the 3 |
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| 242 | 242 | | Commission under subsection (a)(3)(A)(i), the Com-4 |
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| 243 | 243 | | mission shall submit to Congress a report that indi-5 |
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| 244 | 244 | | cates— 6 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (A) which recommendations of the Advi-7 |
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| 246 | 246 | | sory Committee that the Commission imple-8 |
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| 247 | 247 | | mented, plans to implement, or adopted; and 9 |
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| 248 | 248 | | (B) which such recommendations the Com-10 |
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| 249 | 249 | | mission did not implement, does not plan to im-11 |
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| 250 | 250 | | plement, or does not adopt and a rationale for 12 |
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| 251 | 251 | | that determination. 13 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (2) G |
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| 253 | 253 | | UIDANCE TO SOCIAL MEDIA PLAT -14 |
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| 254 | 254 | | FORMS.—Not later than 90 days after the Advisory 15 |
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| 255 | 255 | | Committee provides its recommendations to the 16 |
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| 256 | 256 | | Commission under subsection (a)(3)(A)(i), the Com-17 |
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| 257 | 257 | | mission shall issue guidance to social media plat-18 |
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| 258 | 258 | | forms describing the reporting metrics adopted by 19 |
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| 259 | 259 | | the Commission. 20 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (c) R |
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| 261 | 261 | | EPORTINGREQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 21 |
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| 262 | 262 | | days after the Commission issues guidance under sub-22 |
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| 263 | 263 | | section (b)(2), and annually thereafter, each social media 23 |
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| 264 | 264 | | platform shall submit to the Commission, in a publicly 24 |
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| 265 | 265 | | available manner, a report that includes— 25 |
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| 269 | 269 | | (1) the reporting metrics required by the Com-1 |
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| 270 | 270 | | mission as described in subsection (a)(3)(B); and 2 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (2) a description of any efforts taken by the 3 |
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| 272 | 272 | | platform to monitor advertisements or other infor-4 |
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| 273 | 273 | | mation promoting illicit activity on an account on 5 |
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| 274 | 274 | | the platform. 6 |
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| 275 | 275 | | SEC. 4. ENFORCEMENT. 7 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (a) U |
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| 277 | 277 | | NFAIR ORDECEPTIVEACTS ORPRACTICES.— 8 |
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| 278 | 278 | | A violation of section 2(a) or 3(c) or a regulation promul-9 |
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| 279 | 279 | | gated under this Act shall be treated as a violation of a 10 |
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| 280 | 280 | | rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice under 11 |
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| 281 | 281 | | section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 12 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)). 13 |
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| 283 | 283 | | (b) P |
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| 284 | 284 | | OWERS OF THECOMMISSION.— 14 |
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| 285 | 285 | | (1) I |
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| 286 | 286 | | N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-15 |
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| 287 | 287 | | graph (3), the Commission shall enforce this Act in 16 |
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| 288 | 288 | | the same manner, by the same means, and with the 17 |
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| 289 | 289 | | same jurisdiction, powers, and duties as though all 18 |
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| 290 | 290 | | applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade 19 |
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| 291 | 291 | | Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incor-20 |
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| 292 | 292 | | porated into and made a part of this Act. 21 |
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| 293 | 293 | | (2) P |
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| 294 | 294 | | RIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES .—Except as 22 |
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| 295 | 295 | | provided in paragraph (3), any person who violates 23 |
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| 296 | 296 | | section 2(a) or 3(c) or a regulation promulgated 24 |
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| 297 | 297 | | under this Act shall be subject to the penalties and 25 |
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| 301 | 301 | | entitled to the privileges and immunities provided in 1 |
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| 302 | 302 | | the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et 2 |
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| 303 | 303 | | seq.). 3 |
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| 304 | 304 | | (3) C |
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| 305 | 305 | | OMMON CARRIERS AND NONPROFIT ORGA -4 |
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| 306 | 306 | | NIZATIONS.—Notwithstanding section 4, 5(a)(2), or 5 |
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| 307 | 307 | | 6 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 6 |
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| 308 | 308 | | 44, 45(a)(2), 46) or any jurisdictional limitation of 7 |
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| 309 | 309 | | the Commission, the Commission shall also enforce 8 |
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| 310 | 310 | | this Act, in the same manner provided in paragraphs 9 |
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| 311 | 311 | | (1) and (2), with respect to— 10 |
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| 312 | 312 | | (A) common carriers subject to the Com-11 |
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| 313 | 313 | | munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et 12 |
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| 314 | 314 | | seq.) and Acts amendatory thereof and supple-13 |
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| 315 | 315 | | mentary thereto; and 14 |
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| 316 | 316 | | (B) organizations not organized to carry 15 |
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| 317 | 317 | | on business for their own profit or that of their 16 |
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| 318 | 318 | | members. 17 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (4) A |
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| 320 | 320 | | UTHORITY PRESERVED .—Nothing in this 18 |
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| 321 | 321 | | Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the 19 |
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| 322 | 322 | | Commission under any other provision of law. 20 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (5) R |
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| 324 | 324 | | ULEMAKING.—The Commission shall pro-21 |
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| 325 | 325 | | mulgate in accordance with section 553 of title 5, 22 |
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| 326 | 326 | | United States Code, such rules as may be necessary 23 |
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| 327 | 327 | | to carry out this Act. 24 |
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| 331 | 331 | | SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 1 |
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| 332 | 332 | | In this Act: 2 |
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| 333 | 333 | | (1) C |
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| 334 | 334 | | HAIR.—The term ‘‘Chair’’ means the 3 |
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| 335 | 335 | | Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. 4 |
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| 336 | 336 | | (2) C |
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| 337 | 337 | | OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 5 |
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| 338 | 338 | | means the Federal Trade Commission. 6 |
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| 339 | 339 | | (3) C |
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| 340 | 340 | | ONTROLLED SUBSTANCE .—The term 7 |
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| 341 | 341 | | ‘‘controlled substance’’ has the meaning given that 8 |
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| 342 | 342 | | term in section 102 of the Controlled Substances 9 |
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| 343 | 343 | | Act (21 U.S.C. 802). 10 |
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| 344 | 344 | | (4) C |
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| 345 | 345 | | OUNTERFEIT SUBSTANCE .—The term 11 |
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| 346 | 346 | | ‘‘counterfeit substance’’ has the meaning given that 12 |
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| 347 | 347 | | term in section 102 of the Controlled Substances 13 |
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| 348 | 348 | | Act (21 U.S.C. 802). 14 |
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| 349 | 349 | | (5) I |
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| 350 | 350 | | LLICIT ACTIVITY.—The term ‘‘illicit activ-15 |
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| 351 | 351 | | ity’’ means the unlawful production, manufacturing, 16 |
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| 352 | 352 | | distribution, advertisement, or sale of a controlled 17 |
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| 353 | 353 | | substance. 18 |
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| 354 | 354 | | (6) S |
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| 355 | 355 | | OCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM .—The term ‘‘so-19 |
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| 356 | 356 | | cial media platform’’— 20 |
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| 357 | 357 | | (A) means a website or mobile web applica-21 |
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| 358 | 358 | | tion that— 22 |
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| 359 | 359 | | (i) permits a person to become a reg-23 |
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| 360 | 360 | | istered user, establish an account, or create 24 |
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| 361 | 361 | | a profile for the purpose of allowing the 25 |
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| 362 | 362 | | user to create, share, and view user-gen-26 |
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| 366 | 366 | | erated content (including goods or services 1 |
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| 367 | 367 | | offered for sale) through such an account 2 |
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| 368 | 368 | | or profile; 3 |
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| 369 | 369 | | (ii) enables 1 or more users to gen-4 |
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| 370 | 370 | | erate content that can be viewed by other 5 |
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| 371 | 371 | | users of the platform; and 6 |
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| 372 | 372 | | (iii) primarily serves as a medium for 7 |
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| 373 | 373 | | users to interact with content generated by 8 |
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| 374 | 374 | | other users of the medium and for the 9 |
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| 375 | 375 | | platform to deliver advertisements to users; 10 |
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| 376 | 376 | | and 11 |
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| 377 | 377 | | (B) includes a social network, an online 12 |
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| 378 | 378 | | chat room or message board, an online market-13 |
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| 379 | 379 | | place, and any other platform determined ap-14 |
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| 380 | 380 | | propriate by the Commission. 15 |
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