Texas Business and Commerce Code 120.053 – Biannual Transparency Report
(a) As part of a social media platform’s acceptable use policy under § 120.052, the social media platform shall publish a biannual transparency report that includes, with respect to the preceding six-month period:
(1) the total number of instances in which the social media platform was alerted to illegal content, illegal activity, or potentially policy-violating content by:
(A) a user complaint;
(B) an employee of or person contracting with the social media platform; or
(C) an internal automated detection tool;
(2) subject to Subsection (b), the number of instances in which the social media platform took action with respect to illegal content, illegal activity, or potentially policy-violating content known to the platform due to the nature of the content as illegal content, illegal activity, or potentially policy-violating content, including:
(A) content removal;
(B) content demonetization;
(C) content deprioritization;
(D) the addition of an assessment to content;
(E) account suspension;
(F) account removal; or
(G) any other action taken in accordance with the platform’s acceptable use policy;
(3) the country of the user who provided the content for each instance described by Subdivision (2);
(4) the number of coordinated campaigns, if applicable;
(5) the number of instances in which a user appealed the decision to remove the user’s potentially policy-violating content;
(6) the percentage of appeals described by Subdivision (5) that resulted in the restoration of content; and
(7) a description of each tool, practice, action, or technique used in enforcing the acceptable use policy.
(b) The information described by Subsection (a)(2) must be categorized by:
(1) the rule violated; and
(2) the source for the alert of illegal content, illegal activity, or potentially policy-violating content, including:
(A) a government;
(B) a user;
(C) an internal automated detection tool;
(D) coordination with other social media platforms; or
(E) persons employed by or contracting with the platform.
Terms Used In Texas Business and Commerce Code 120.053
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) A social media platform shall publish the information described by Subsection (a) with an open license, in a machine-readable and open format, and in a location that is easily accessible to users.