PENNSYLVANIA, May 13 - (h) Requirements for social media companies.--A social media

company who operates in or has users who reside in this

Commonwealth shall perform the following:

(1) Inform a user in writing why the user's account has

been banned or disabled within 30 days of the action and

offer the user recourse to restore the user's account.

(2) Publish and consistently apply standards for user

censoring, shadowbanning and deplatforming.

(i) Penalty.--An owner or operator of a social media website

that has engaged in practices described in subsection (a) has

committed an unlawful act or practice under the act of December

17, 1968 (P.L.1224, No.387), known as the Unfair Trade Practices

and Consumer Protection Law, and shall be subject to applicable

penalties under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer

Protection Law.

(j) Application.--This section shall not apply to any of the

following:

(1) A social media website that deletes or censors a

social media website user's speech or that uses an algorithm

to disfavor or censure speech that:

(i) calls for immediate acts of violence;

(ii) calls for a user to self-harm;

(iii) is obscene, lewd, filthy or lascivious

material or material harmful to minors;

(iv) is the result of operational error;

(v) is the result of a court order;

(vi) comes from an inauthentic source or involves

false impersonation;

(vii) entices criminal conduct;

(viii) involves minors bullying other minors;

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