"On Wednesday Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make platforms responsible for preventing their recommendation systems from causing certain foreseeable harms. Section 230 is the law that shields online platforms - including social media sites, digital forums, blogs with comment sections, and their users -"
"online platforms - including social media sites, digital forums, blogs with comment sections, and their users - from being held liable for other people's unlawful posts, or for engaging in good faith content moderation. But the Algorithm Accountability Act would require commercial social media platforms to "exercise reasonable care in the design, training, testing, deployment, operation, and maintenance of a recommendation-based algorithm" to "prevent bodily injury or death." If a platform should have reasonably been able to predict its content recommendations"
The Algorithm Accountability Act would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make commercial social media platforms liable for harms caused by recommendation algorithms. Platforms would be required to exercise reasonable care in designing, training, testing, deploying, operating, and maintaining recommendation-based algorithms to prevent bodily injury or death. The bill conditions Section 230 protections on anticipating and mitigating foreseeable harms from content recommendations. The measure would enable civil actions or regulatory enforcement when platforms fail to take reasonable steps to prevent algorithmically amplified harm. The proposal targets recommendation systems rather than non-recommendation content and links compliance to legal liability.
Read at The Verge
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]