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HR 488 · in committee · significant

Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill requires three federal departments to develop and implement a strategy to combat cartels' use of social media to recruit people for illegal activities.
  • It affects Homeland Security, Justice, and State departments, as well as people targeted by criminal organizations on social media.
  • The bill mandates a joint assessment and strategy with no specific appropriation amount or deadline specified in the summary.

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    How should federal agencies balance monitoring cartel recruitment on social media with protecting users' privacy rights?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that current social media platforms are inadequately addressing cartel recruitment, and what would success look like?

  3. 03

    Without specified funding or deadlines, how would you assess whether agencies are actually implementing an effective anti-cartel strategy?

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Sponsor · R-AZ-6

Juan Ciscomani

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Introduced 2025-01-16

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-16 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

  2. 2025-01-16 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-01-16 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-01-16 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  5. 2025-01-16 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  6. 2025-01-16 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  7. 2025-01-16 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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