Social media users could disable algorithms in new U.S. proposal


FILE PHOTO Woman holds smartphone with Facebook logo in front of a displayed Facebooks new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken October 28 2021. REUTERSDado RuvicIllustration

FILE PHOTO: Woman holds smartphone with Facebook logo in front of a displayed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would require internet platforms like Meta's Facebook and Alphabet's Google to allow users to see content not chosen by algorithms.

The legislation, introduced by Representatives Ken Buck, a Republican, and David Cicilline, a Democrat, and others, would require big internet platforms to show consumers information not directed to them via algorithms, putting them outside what the lawmakers called the "filter bubble."

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