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SOCIAL
MEDIA/TECH
COMPANIES

Pass - and properly enforce - data privacy legislation similar to the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe.

The legislation must include Purpose Limitation (i.e. the requirement that data collected for one purpose cannot be used for another).

Repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Pass some version of the Honest Ads Act, which requires public disclosures of all political and social issue advertising in social media.

These actions will take a while. In the meantime...

American Consumers! Be responsible and protect yourself!

Encourage social networks to establish oversight boards to rule on online speech issues, much like Facebook has.

Encourage social networks to make their data available for audits by independent researchers.

Learn more about the effectiveness of labeling posts as false, misleading, or disputed. Does this help or hurt?

Demand that social media companies ensure the authenticity of accounts on their platforms. Social bots should be banned ASAP.

Pressure the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize data collection methods to see if they constitute deceptive practices under existing law.

Demand the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) establish a data-broker clearinghouse.

Expand the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Surveilling the movement of minors should never happen. Ever.

Do everything possible to limit the long-term negative effects of social media platforms.

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Lay off antitrust actions against U.S. tech companies.

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