LISTOS Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced
Summary
The LISTOS Act would force big online platforms to provide consistent, transparent, and language-inclusive content moderation. It targets gaps in non-English enforcement and would give the Federal Trade Commission new rulemaking and enforcement duties.
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- People who use non-English languages would see platforms required to apply detection, suppression, and removal processes that are reasonably consistent across languages the platforms monetize. The bill includes exceptions for end-to-end encrypted messaging and for languages used by fewer than 100,000 U.S. users in most months.
- Platform operators with at least 10 million monthly U.S. users would have to publish an annual machine-readable report to the FTC. Reports must detail moderation staffing by country and language, training and mental health supports, automated detection performance, monetization by language, takedown counts, and average response times.
- The Federal Trade Commission would begin rulemaking within 120 days to implement enforcement and reporting requirements and the bill would create an Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies within 360 days to publish best practices. State attorneys general could bring civil actions under defined conditions and the FTC may treat violations as unfair or deceptive acts.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Federal enforcement and state lawsuits
If enacted, the FTC would treat violations of the bill's moderation, reporting, and access rules as unfair or deceptive practices and could use its full FTC Act powers and penalties to enforce them. State attorneys general could also sue on behalf of residents for violations, seek injunctions, compliance, and damages, but must notify the FTC and cannot sue on the same violation while the FTC has a pending case. The FTC must begin rulemaking within 120 days after enactment, and the bill would require creation of an Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies within 360 days.
Platform language and moderation rules
If enacted, covered platforms would have to enforce content rules reasonably consistently for every language they monetize. Platforms would also file a public, machine-readable annual report listing moderation staffing by region and language, how automated systems perform across languages, which languages are monetized and revenue shares, how often content is reviewed in the original language versus translated, takedown counts by language, and average response times by language. The bill would exempt end-to-end encrypted messaging and languages with fewer than 100,000 U.S. users for 9+ of the past 12 months. All reporting tools and policy pages must be available in every language the service offers, and that rule would start 120 days after enactment.
Large online platforms covered
If enacted, the bill would apply only to online sites and apps that let users post or view third-party content and that have at least 10,000,000 monthly active U.S. users for 3 or more of the past 12 months. That numeric threshold would decide which companies must follow the bill's moderation, reporting, and accessibility rules. Small platforms under that threshold would not be covered.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Roll Call Votes
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