Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have once again crossed party lines to introduce a bill that would oblige internet platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Alphabet’s Google to allow users to view content not selected by algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bill, backed by Representatives Ken Buck, a Republican, and David Cicilline, a Democrat, and others, would force large technology companies to show consumers information that is not transmitted to them by algorithms and push them out of what lawmakers called a “filter bubble.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cicilline is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel while Buck is the leading Republican on the same panel, and last year the panel released a landmark report sharply criticizing big technology companies like Amazon and Apple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The House bill is a complement to a similar proposal that passed the Senate last June and was also bipartisan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Consumers should have the option to engage with internet platforms without being manipulated by secret algorithms driven by user-specific data,” Buck said about their proposed legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More antitrust rules are expected to be introduced to rein in on big tech companies.<\/p>\n\n\n