Digital Integrity in Democracy Act

This bill would require big social media companies to quickly take down false information about elections, such as wrong details about when or where to vote or who is eligible to vote. If someone reports false election information on a platform, the company must look into it and remove it within 48 hours, or within 24 hours if the report comes on an actual election day, including during early or absentee voting. The Department of Justice, state governments, and affected candidates could sue social media platforms that don't follow these rules, seeking money or a court order to fix the problem. The bill also says that social media companies that knowingly keep false election information on their sites would lose certain legal protections that normally shield them from being responsible for content posted by their users, though companies that follow the removal rules would keep those protections.

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