AR HB1028

Classifies social media websites with more than 75 million subscribers as public utilities under Arkansas law.

Creates a private right of action allowing users to sue social media website owners or operators residing in Arkansas for purposely deleting or censoring religious or political speech, or using algorithms to suppress such speech.

Establishes minimum damages of $75,000 per purposeful deletion or censoring, plus actual damages, punitive damages if aggravating factors exist, and attorney's fees for prevailing parties.

Prohibits social media websites from using alleged hate speech as a justification or defense in lawsuits, but exempts them from liability for censoring speech that calls for immediate violence, is obscene, or is pornographic.

Allows the Arkansas Attorney General to bring civil action on behalf of state residents whose religious or political speech has been censored by social media websites.