Platform Accountability and Transparency Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Dec 1, 2025
What it does
The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act would establish a program allowing independent researchers affiliated with U.S. universities or nonprofits to access privacy-protected data from large internet platforms (those with at least 50 million U.S. monthly users) for noncommercial research on societal impacts, subject to review and safeguards by the National Science Foundation and Federal Trade Commission. Platforms would be required to provide qualified data and information under strict privacy and cybersecurity protocols, including prepublication review of research findings, and would receive legal immunity from claims arising solely from compliant data sharing. The bill prohibits…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.