[munfred]

This has actually also be proposed by Mark Warner in 2018 on a whitepaper titled “Potential Policy Proposals for Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms”: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d/3/d32c2f...

It discusses 20 topics for potential legislation, listed below. Look at items 13 and 16 in the whitepaper, they go very much along the lines of what you said.

    1) Duty to clearly and conspicuously label bots 
    2) Duty to determine the origin of posts and/or accounts
    3) Duty to identify inauthentic accounts 
    4) Make platforms liable for state-law torts (defamation, false light, public disclosure of private facts) for failure to take down deep fake or other manipulated audio/video content 
    5) Public Interest Data Access Bill
    6) Require Interagency Task Force for Countering Asymmetric Threats to Democratic Institutions
    7)Disclosure Requirements for Online Political Advertisements
    8) Public Initiative for Media Literacy
    9) Increasing Deterrence Against Foreign Manipulation
    10) Information fiduciary 
    11) Privacy rulemaking authority at FTC
    12) Comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation
    13) 1st Party Consent for Data Collection
    14) Statutory determination that so-called ‘dark patterns’ are unfair and deceptive trade practices
    15) Algorithmic auditability/fairness
    16) Data Transparency Bill
    17) Data Portability Bill
    18) Interoperability
    19) Opening federal datasets to university researchers and qualified small businesses/startups
    20) Essential Facilities Determinations