In our latest Substack post we take sides and support the Algorithm Accountability Act, which would “impose a duty of care on the companies that utilize recommendations-based algorithms.”

It would reform Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996, which gives social media sites like Facebook, X-Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky, etc., carte-blanche to run lies, slander, conspiracy theories and the like, and pull readers to one political extreme or the other.

This is not, however, a left-column political position. It is not a right-column political position. 

We’re happy to say the bill proposed in the Senate is bipartisan. Its co-sponsors are Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ). 

We are happy to replace those above social media sites with this civil media site committed to no echo-chambers, no false equivalencies and with a love for and commitment to verified facts.

Whether you agree or disagree with us in our support of the Algorithm Accountability Act, and/or you have a strong opinion on any of the news/aggregate/analysis of our center column or the commentaries in the right and left columns, we want to hear from you. If there is a big issue you feel we’ve missed, we’d also like to hear about that too.

Become a Citizen Pundit with an email to editors@thehustings.news and please indicate in the subject line whether you lean left or right so we may post your comments in the proper column. --Editors