LISTOS Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The LISTOS Act of 2025 (Language-Inclusive Support and Transparency for Online Services Act) requires large online platforms with at least 10 million U.S. monthly active users to enforce their content moderation policies consistently across all languages in which they make money. Platforms must submit annual public transparency reports detailing their multilingual content moderation staffing, automated detection systems, takedown rates by language, and response times. The bill also requires platforms to make reporting tools and policy documentation available in all languages they serve, and establishes an FTC Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies.
Who Benefits and How
Non-English-speaking users of major online platforms benefit from more equitable content moderation, reducing their disproportionate exposure to illegal and harmful content. Communities targeted by fraud and harassment in non-English languages gain better protection. Content moderation workers benefit from required transparency about training and mental health support. The general public benefits from greater transparency into how platforms moderate content across languages.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Large online platforms (those with 10M+ U.S. monthly users) bear significant compliance costs including staffing multilingual moderation teams, producing detailed annual transparency reports, and ensuring consistent enforcement across languages. The FTC bears administrative burden of establishing regulations within 120 days, enforcing compliance, and operating the Advisory Group. State attorneys general gain enforcement authority but also take on associated workload.
Key Provisions
- Requires reasonably consistent content moderation across all monetized languages, with exemptions for end-to-end encrypted messaging and languages with fewer than 100,000 U.S. users
- Mandates annual public transparency reports on multilingual moderation staffing, algorithmic processes, takedown rates, and response times by language
- Requires all user reporting tools and platform policies to be available in all served languages
- Establishes an FTC Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies for best practices
- Violations treated as unfair or deceptive practices under the FTC Act, with state attorney general enforcement authority
- Applies to platforms with 10M+ monthly active U.S. users
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires large online platforms to provide reasonably consistent content moderation across all languages in which they monetize, mandates transparency reporting on multilingual moderation practices, and establishes an FTC Advisory Group on language-sensitive technologies.
Key Policy Areas
Technology Regulation, Consumer Protection, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
Requires large online platforms to provide reasonably consistent content moderation across all languages in which they monetize, mandates transparency reporting on multilingual moderation practices, and establishes an FTC Advisory Group on language-sensitive technologies.
Policy Domains
Whole Bill
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Non-English-speaking platform users
- Communities targeted by non-English harmful content
- Content moderation workers
- General public (transparency)
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Large online platforms (compliance costs)
- Federal Trade Commission (rulemaking and enforcement)
- State attorneys general (enforcement workload)
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Luján (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Padilla, and Ms. …
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → Federal Trade Commission
Key Definitions
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