POLITICS
Josh Hawley Proposes Bill Holding Tech Companies Liable For Harm To Children
Ailan Evans
Tech Reporter
September 30, 2021 4:20 PM ET
Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill Thursday removing liability protections from tech platforms that harm children.
The bill would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to strip liability protections from social media services that are found to have caused “bodily injury or harm to mental health” to users under the age of 16. This allows for users who suffer harm at the hands of social media companies to sue for damages.
“Facebook has long had evidence of the harmful effects their products have on children but covered it up because it would hurt their profits,” Hawley said in a statement announcing the bill, referencing the results of a Wall Street Journal investigation earlier this month that found Facebook had researched the effects its services had on the mental health of teen users. Hawley interrogated Facebook about its platform’s harms on Sept. 21, promising “accountability.”
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