Sen Luján Reintroduces Legislation to Increase Multilingual Content Moderation Enforcement and Transparency

Sen Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, led Sens Alex Padilla (D-CA, Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) in introducing the Language-Inclusive Support and Transparency for Online Services 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.