congressional proposals and the platforms’ response

The FEC is not alone at the federal level in considering new rules for online
advertising. After the 2016 election, Congress considered new legislation to
regulate political ads online. In fact, New York’s legislation was primarily
inspired by drafts of the proposed Honest Ads Act, sponsored by Senators
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mark Warner (D-VA), and John McCain (R-AZ) in
October 2017 (and introduced simultaneously in the House by Democrat Derek
Kilmer of Washington state).17 The bill (when ﬁrst introduced in the 115th
Congress) had twenty-seven additional cosponsors in the Senate, all Democrats
plus Independent Angus King of Maine.18
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