North America
United States
No comprehensive federal platform-governance law exists; COPPA child-privacy enforcement is the main federal lever, and state transparency and age-verification laws are heavily contested in court.
Scored against the DSA
Each obligation the DSA imposes on very large platforms, and whether United States’s law requires the same. Cells cover DSA-style, user-protective transparency and accountability only.
- Required by law
- Partial / emerging
- No such obligation
- Undetermined
Transparency
Public ad libraryDSA Art. 39
No federal ad-repository mandate; platform ad libraries are voluntary.
Source ↗Transparency reportsDSA Art. 15 / 24 / 42
No federal mandate; California AB 587's content-moderation reporting was largely enjoined on First Amendment grounds (X Corp. v. Bonta, 9th Cir. 2024).
Source ↗Researcher data accessDSA Art. 40
No federal mandate; the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act has been repeatedly proposed but never enacted.
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Accountability
Systemic risk assessmentDSA Art. 34–35
No federal mandate; California Age-Appropriate Design Code's data-protection impact-assessment requirement was partly enjoined (NetChoice v. Bonta).
Source ↗Algorithmic transparencyDSA Art. 27 / 38
No federal recommender-transparency or chronological-feed mandate.
Source ↗Regulator + penaltiesDSA Art. 49–52, 74
No dedicated platform-governance regulator; the FTC enforces only COPPA child-privacy (civil penalties up to ~$53,088 per violation).
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Child protection
No profiling ads to minorsDSA Art. 26(3) / 28
No federal ban; COPPA requires parental consent for targeted ads to under-13s rather than prohibiting them.
Source ↗Age assuranceBeyond the DSA
No federal mandate; SCOTUS upheld Texas's adult-content age-verification law (Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, June 2025), but many state social-media age laws are enjoined (Utah, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi).
Source ↗Child-safety duty of careDSA Art. 28
No federal duty-of-care in force; KOSA never enacted and the House-passed KIDS Act (June 2026) dropped the duty-of-care standard.
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On the horizon
What's being debated
Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), S.3292
NSF-facilitated vetted-researcher access to platform data, mandatory public ad libraries, disclosure of recommender/ranking systems and content-moderation statistics, plus legal protections for researchers and journalists.
Latest: Reintroduced in the Senate as S.3292 in the 119th Congress (2025) by Coons, Cassidy, Klobuchar, Cornyn, Blumenthal and Romney. source ↗
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