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S 5339 117th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications

Platform Accountability and Transparency Act

Introduced: December 21, 2022 Introduced by: Coons, Christopher A. Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Dec 21, 2022
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Platform Accountability and Transparency Act

This bill increases access to the data of large technology platforms (i.e., platforms with at least 50 million unique monthly users in the United States) in order to facilitate research concerning activities on those platforms, particularly by requiring platforms to disclose data to researchers who participate in a research program jointly established by the National Science Foundation and the Federal Trade Commission.

What's happening now December 21, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Cassidy, Bill
Louisiana · Dec 21, 2022
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Dec 21, 2022
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5339: Platform Accountability and Transparency Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5339/
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"S. 5339: Platform Accountability and Transparency Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5339/.
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S. 5339, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5339/.
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[S. 5339: Platform Accountability and Transparency Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5339/)
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