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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5681 
To require the reporting of certain terms of service of social media companies 
for purposes of limiting the online presence of terrorist organizations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 3, 2025 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself and Mr. BACON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
addition to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To require the reporting of certain terms of service of social 
media companies for purposes of limiting the online pres-
ence of terrorist organizations. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Terrorists 
Online Presence and Holding Accountable Tech Entities 
Act of 2025’’ or as the ‘‘STOP HATE Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. STOPPING TERRORISTS ONLINE PRESENCE AND 
HOLDING ACCOUNTABLE TECH ENTITIES. 
(a) TERMS OF SERVICE PUBLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—No later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this section, each social 
media company described in subsection (f)(4) shall 
publish terms of service, or lack thereof, for each so-
cial media platform owned or operated by the com-
pany in a manner reasonably designed to inform all 
users of the social media platform of the existence 
and contents of the terms of service applicable to the 
following: 
(A) A foreign terrorist organization des-
ignated under section 219 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act. 
(B) Individuals or entities designated as 
Specially Designated Global Terrorists under 
Executive Order 13224. 
(2) ADDITIONAL
PUBLICATION
OF
INFORMA-
TION.—In addition to the terms of service published 
pursuant to paragraph (1), the social media com-
pany shall also publish the following information: 
(A) Contact information for the purpose of 
allowing users to ask the social media company 
questions about the terms of service. 
(B) A description of— 
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(i) the process that a user must fol-
low— 
(I) to flag an item of content 
that the user believes violates the 
terms of service; or 
(II) to flag a group or another 
user that the user believes has vio-
lated the terms of service; and 
(ii) the social media company’s com-
mitments on response and resolution time. 
(C) A list of ways in which an item of con-
tent or a user may be actioned by the social 
media company. 
(b) TERMS OF SERVICE REPORT TO THE ATTORNEY 
GENERAL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each social media company 
shall electronically submit, on a triannual basis, a 
terms of service report to the Attorney General pur-
suant to paragraph (2), regarding information and 
enforcement of the terms of service identified in sub-
section (a)(1), that will include the following: 
(A) The version of the terms of service for 
each social media platform owned or operated 
by the company in effect as of the date of the 
report. 
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(B) Data related to violations of the terms 
of service of identified under subsection (a), in-
cluding the following: 
(i) The total number of items of con-
tent flagged. 
(ii) The total number of actioned 
items of content. 
(iii) The total number of actioned 
items of content that resulted in action 
taken by the social media company against 
the user or group of users responsible for 
the content. 
(iv) The total number of actioned 
items of content that were removed, de-
monetized, or deprioritized by the social 
media company. 
(v) The number of times actioned 
items of content were viewed by users. 
(vi) The number of times actioned 
items of content were shared, and the 
number of users that viewed the content 
before it was actioned. 
(vii) The number of times users ap-
pealed social media company actions taken 
on that platform and the number of rever-
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sals of social media company actions on 
appeal disaggregated by each type of ac-
tion. 
(C) All information required by subpara-
graph (B) shall be disaggregated into the fol-
lowing categories: 
(i) The category of content, including 
any relevant categories described in sub-
paragraph (B). 
(ii) The type of content, including 
posts, comments, messages, profiles of 
users, or groups of users. 
(iii) The type of media of the content, 
including text, images, and videos. 
(iv) How the content was flagged, in-
cluding whether the content was flagged 
by— 
(I) company employees or con-
tractors of the social media company; 
(II) artificial intelligence soft-
ware; 
(III) community moderators of 
the social media platform; 
(IV) civil society partners; or 
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(V) users of the social media 
platform. 
(v) How the content was actioned, in-
cluding whether the content was actioned 
by— 
(I) employees or contractors of 
the social media company; 
(II) artificial intelligence soft-
ware; 
(III) community moderators of 
the social media platform; 
(IV) civil society partners; and 
(V) actioned by users. 
(D) A complete and detailed evaluation of 
the changes over time, including identifiable 
trends and analysis, with respect to the infor-
mation in subparagraphs (A) through (C) since 
the previous report, if applicable, and those 
thereafter. 
(2) DEADLINE.—Not later than 360 days after 
the date of enactment of this section, each social 
media company shall submit the first report required 
pursuant to paragraph (1). After the submission of 
the first report, the following reports will occur no 
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later than January 31, April 30, and October 31 the 
following years. 
(3) PUBLICATION.—The Attorney General shall 
make all reports submitted under this section avail-
able to the public in a searchable repository on the 
website of the Department of Justice. 
(c) CIVIL PENALTY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 
bring an action for a civil penalty of not more than 
$5,000,000 per violation per day against any social 
media company that does not submit a report re-
quired under subsection (b). 
(2) VIOLATIONS.—A social media company 
shall be considered in violation of the provisions of 
this chapter for each day the social media company 
does any of the following: 
(A) Fails to post terms of service in ac-
cordance with subsection (a). 
(B) Fails to timely submit to the Attorney 
General a report required pursuant to sub-
section (b). 
(C) Materially omits or misrepresents re-
quired information in a report submitted pursu-
ant to subsection (b). 
(d) REPORTS.— 
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(1) NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE.—Not 
later than 360 days after the date of enactment of 
this section, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit a National Intelligence Estimate on the 
use of platforms by the individuals and entities iden-
tified under subsection (a)(1) to Congress. The Di-
rector shall ensure an unclassified version of the as-
sessment is published on the Department’s website 
no later than 30 days following the submission to 
Congress. 
(2) COMPTROLLER
GENERAL
REPORTS.—Not 
later than 540 days after the date of enactment of 
this section, and then again 540 days after, the 
Comptroller General shall submit to Congress re-
ports on the implementation of this section. 
(e) SUNSET.—The authority to carry out this section 
shall terminate on the date that is 5 years after the date 
of enactment of this section. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ACTIONED.—The term ‘‘actioned’’ means 
that, pursuant to a violation of the terms of service 
of a social media platform— 
(A) in the case of an item of content, that 
item of content was removed, demonetized, or 
deprioritized from the social media platform; or 
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(B) in the case of a user, that user was 
banned from the social media platform, or the 
account of that user was demonetized. 
(2) CONTENT.—The term ‘‘content’’ means, on 
an internet-based service or application— 
(A) a statement or comment made by a 
user; or 
(B) media that are created, posted, shared, 
or otherwise interacted with by a user. 
The term does not include media on a service or ap-
plication exclusively for the purpose of cloud storage, 
transmitting files, or file collaboration. 
(3) SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM.—The term ‘‘so-
cial media platform’’ means any entity subject to the 
jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission under 
section 5(a)(2) of the Federal Trade Commission 
Act (15 U.S.C. 45(a)(2)) that— 
(A) is a website, desktop application, or 
mobile application that— 
(i) permits a person to become a reg-
istered user, establish an account, or create 
a profile for the purpose of allowing the 
user to create, share, and view user-gen-
erated content through such an account or 
profile; 
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(ii) enables one or more users to gen-
erate content that can be viewed by other 
users of the platform; and 
(iii) primarily serves as a medium for 
users to interact with content generated by 
other users of the platform and for the 
platform to deliver ads to users; and 
(B) has at least 25,000,000 unique month-
ly users in the United States for a majority of 
the months in the most recent 12-month period. 
(4) SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY.—The term ‘‘social 
media company’’ means a person or entity that owns 
or operates one or more social media platforms. 
(5) TERMS OF SERVICE.—The term ‘‘terms of 
service’’ means a policy or set of policies adopted by 
a social media company that specifies, at least, the 
user behavior and activities that are permitted on 
the internet-based service owned or operated by the 
social media company, and the user behavior and ac-
tivities that may subject the user or an item of con-
tent to being actioned. 
(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this section shall 
be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right 
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protected under the First Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States. 
(2) CONFIDENTIALITY
AND
PRIVACY.—The 
publication of the reports authorized in subsection 
(d) shall comply with any Federal, State, and local 
laws affecting confidentiality and privacy, including 
the Privacy Act of 1974. 
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