Title: No Publicity for Terrorists Act of 2022
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
No Publicity for Terrorists Act of 2022
This bill requires social media platforms to remove the accounts of certain users (individuals designated as terrorists) and establishes related penalties for failure to comply with this requirement.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6918 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6918

  To amend section 2339B of title 18, United States Code, to apply to 
            social media platforms, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2022

  Mr. Cawthorn (for himself and Mr. Good of Virginia) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to 
      be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 2339B of title 18, United States Code, to apply to 
            social media platforms, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Publicity for Terrorists Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT OR RESOURCES TO DESIGNATED FOREIGN 
              TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2339B of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(3) Social media platforms.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Any social media platform that 
                becomes aware that certain users have an account or are 
                actively using the platform shall remove such certain 
                users account within 24 hours of becoming aware of such 
                certain users.
                    ``(B) Certification requirement.--Any social media 
                platform required to file a quarterly report under 
                section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 
                1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m; 78o(d)) shall certify in such 
                report that such social media platform is in compliance 
                with subparagraph (A).''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the header, by striking ``Civil Penalty'' 
                and inserting ``Penalties'';
                    (B) by striking ``Any financial institution'' and 
                inserting:
            ``(1) Financial institutions.--Any financial institution'';
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(2) Social media platforms.--
                    ``(A) Civil penalty.--Any social media platform 
                that knowingly fails to comply with subsection (a)(3) 
                shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount of 
                $50,000 per violation.
                    ``(B) Criminal penalty.--In the case of any social 
                media platform required to file a quarterly report 
                under section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange 
                Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m; 78o(d)) that fails to 
                comply with subsection (a)(3), any principal financial 
                officer, chief accounting officer, chief operating 
                officer, chief executive officer of such social media 
                platform and the individual who signs such report who 
                knowingly so failed to comply with subsection (a)(3) 
                shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more 
                than 20 years, or both.''; and
                    (D) in subsection (g)--
                            (i) in paragraph (5), by striking ``; and'' 
                        and inserting a semicolon;
                            (ii) in paragraph (6), by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following 
                        new paragraph:
            ``(7) the term `actively using' includes using or posting 
        on a social media platform;
            ``(8) the term `certain user' means an individual 
        designated as a specially designated national pursuant to the 
        designation process established by Executive Order 13224, 
        titled `Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with 
        Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism' 
        published on September 23, 2001;
            ``(9) the term `social media platform'--
                    ``(A) means a website or other internet medium, 
                including a mobile application, that--
                            ``(i) permits an individual or entity to 
                        create an account or profile for the purpose of 
                        generating, sharing, and viewing user-generated 
                        content through such account or profile;
                            ``(ii) enables one or more users to 
                        generate content that can be viewed by other 
                        users of the medium; and
                            ``(iii) enables users to view content 
                        generated by other users of the medium; and
                    ``(B) does not include--
                            ``(i) any such website or other internet 
                        medium that serves fewer than 100,000 users who 
                        access their account or profile at least once a 
                        month;
                            ``(ii) an email program, email distribution 
                        list, or multi-person text message group;
                            ``(iii) a website or other internet medium 
                        that is primarily for the purpose of internet 
                        commerce;
                            ``(iv) a software application (including a 
                        mobile application) used solely to communicate 
                        with others through instant messages, audio 
                        calls, video calls, or any combination thereof; 
                        or
                            ``(v) a website or other internet medium 
                        the primary purpose of which is--
                                    ``(I) to allow users to post 
                                product reviews, business reviews, or 
                                travel information and reviews; or
                                    ``(II) to provide emergency alert 
                                services.''.
    (b) SEC Regulations.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall 
issue such rules and update such forms as the Commission determines may 
be necessary to carry out the certifications under paragraph (3)(B) of 
section 2339B(a) of title 18, United States Code, as added by this 
subsection.
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