The Facebook CEO will tell Congress that Facebook supports legislation requiring companies to adhere to a set of "best practices" in order to receive Section 230 protections.
"We believe Congress should consider making platforms' intermediary liability protection for certain types of unlawful content conditional on companies' ability to meet best practices to combat the spread of this content," Zuckerberg will say, according to his prepared testimony. He is slated to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about misinformation on Thursday. "Instead of being granted immunity, platforms should be required to demonstrate that they have systems in place for identifying unlawful content and removing it."
The set of "best practices" could be established by a third party, and companies of different sizes could face different expectations, Zuckerberg will say.
His proposal hews closely to the EARN IT Act, bipartisan legislation that would allow a government task force to come up with a list of best practices for combatting child sexual abuse material online.
Zuckerberg's reform proposal would focus specifically on unlawful content rather than concerning content more broadly.
He will also suggest legislation to bring more "transparency, accountability, and oversight to the processes by which companies make and enforce their rules about content that is harmful but legal."
"While this approach would not provide a clear answer to where to draw the line on difficult questions of harmful content, it would improve trust in and accountability of the systems and address concerns about the opacity of process and decisionmaking within companies," Zuckerberg will say.
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