California Senate Bill 771 (SB 771) for the 2025-2026 legislative session, introduced by Senator Henry Stern on February 21, 2025, focuses on personal rights and liability for social media platforms.
The bill amends existing laws that prohibit using violence or intimidation to interfere with another person’s enjoyment of rights based on attributes like political affiliation, race, or sexual orientation, and punishes violations with civil penalties or as misdemeanors.
SB 771 would make a social media platform liable for specified civil penalties if it violates these personal rights laws through its algorithms that relay content to users, or if it aids, abets, acts in concert, conspires in, or is a joint tortfeasor in such a violation.
The bill has passed the California State Senate and was read a second time and amended in the Assembly on July 10, 2025, before being re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
It has been described as a partisan Democrat-backed bill.
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The bill amends existing laws that prohibit using violence or intimidation to interfere with another person’s enjoyment of rights based on attributes like political affiliation, race, or sexual orientation, and punishes violations with civil penalties or as misdemeanors.
SB 771 would make a social media platform liable for specified civil penalties if it violates these personal rights laws through its algorithms that relay content to users, or if it aids, abets, acts in concert, conspires in, or is a joint tortfeasor in such a violation.
The bill has passed the California State Senate and was read a second time and amended in the Assembly on July 10, 2025, before being re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
It has been described as a partisan Democrat-backed bill.
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