Sense of Congress

It is the sense of Congress that— (1) substantial and deliberate investments across languages are essential to protect the safety of users online and ensure equitable access to digital spaces; (2) online platforms have historically under-invested in ensuring non-English content moderation and automated content detection and filtering processes keep pace with their English counterparts, providing little transparency into the efficacy of efforts to detect, review, and remove content that violates laws or platform policies across languages; (3) this difference in enforcement for platforms' existing policies and uneven moderation practices across both manual and automated processes has increased the proliferation of illegal and harmful content across many languages and the deliberate targeting of non-English-speaking communities for fraud and harassment; and (4) any reform effort for online platform safety must ensure equitable investment across languages in order to promote economic opportunity, public health, and civil rights.