HB 1333 Summary

• Creates new Anti-Big-Tech Censorship Act prohibiting social media platforms with over $100 million annual revenue or 100 million monthly users from censoring, shadow banning, or deplatforming political candidates during election cycles without notification and detailed rationale.

• Requires social media platforms to publish content moderation standards, apply them consistently across all users, provide notification within seven days of censoring content with thorough explanation, and allow users to opt out of algorithmic post-prioritization.

• Prohibits social media platforms from applying post-prioritization or shadow banning algorithms to political candidates or journalistic enterprises; violating candidates face $250,000 per day fines for statewide races and $25,000 per day for other races.

• Allows users to bring private lawsuits for violations with statutory damages up to $100,000 per claim, actual damages, punitive damages if aggravating factors present, and attorneys' fees for deplatforming violations.

• Expands antitrust law to create an "antitrust violator vendor list" prohibiting persons convicted or held civilly liable for antitrust violations from bidding on new government contracts and transacting new business with public entities.