Sen. Luján Introduces Legislation to Increase Multilingual Content Moderation Enforcement and Transparency

Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) led Sens Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) to introduce the Language-Inclusive Support and Transparency for Online Services (LISTOS) Act to improve multilingual large language models, automated decision-making systems, and content moderation practices online to better protect non-English speaking communities. The LISTOS Act requires online platforms to consistently communicate and enforce their policies across languages and transparently report on the processes used to enforce policies. Critically, the bill also authorizes funding to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to research the prevalence and impact of online hate, abuse, and misleading or false information in languages other than English.