US lawmakers plunge into effort regulating social media

The lawmakers’ proposal would allow consumers to sue if they can show they’ve been treated unfairly and would authorise the state attorney general to take on the country’s largest tech companies for anti-competitive practices. — AFP

TALLAHASSEE, Florida: Florida lawmakers plunged deeper on March 15 into the politically fraught task of attempting to regulate social media and other Big Tech companies, which some Republicans accuse of bias against conservatives.

The House Appropriations Committee advanced the first of a slate of bills, backed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, that would force Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to give users a month’s notice before their accounts are disabled or suspended.