USCA11 Case: 21-12355 12 Date Filed: 05/23/2022 Opinion of the Court Page: 12 of 67 21-12355 § 501.2041(2)(f). The platform must offer users the opportunity to opt out annually. Id. § 501.2041(2)(g). Disclosure Obligations • Standards: A social-media platform must “publish the standards, including detailed definitions, it uses or has used for determining how to censor, deplatform, and shadow ban.” Id. § 501.2041(2)(a). • Rule changes: A platform must inform its users “about any changes to” its “rules, terms, and agreements before implementing the changes.” Id. § 501.2041(2)(c). • View counts: Upon request, a platform must provide a user with the number of others who viewed that user’s content or posts. Id. § 501.2041(2)(e). • Candidate free advertising: Platforms that “willfully provide[] free advertising for a candidate must inform the candidate of such in-kind contribution.” Id. § 106.072(4). • Explanations: Before a social-media platform deplatforms, censors, or shadow-bans any user, it must provide the user with a detailed notice. Id. § 501.2041(2)(d). In particular, the notice must be in writing and be delivered within 7 days, and must include both a “thorough rationale explaining the reason” for the “censor[ship]” and a “precise and thorough explanation of how the social media platform became aware” of the content that triggered its decision. Id. § 501.2041(3). (The notice requirement doesn’t apply “if the censored content or material is obscene.” Id. § 501.2041(4).)

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