Strategy 5 Build Civic Information Architecture that Supports Common Purpose
Public-Interest Mandate for Social Media

Recommendation 5.3
To supplement experiments with public media platforms (Recommendation 5.2), establish a public-interest mandate for for-profit social media platforms. Analogous to zoning requirements, this mandate would require such for-profit digital platform companies to support the development of designated public-friendly digital spaces on their own platforms.
In order to implement Recommendation 5.3 by 2026, the Commission proposes the following milestones to complete by year-end of:
2022
- Develop text of legislation and regulation
2023
- Develop standards for interoperability, portability, and data openness.
2023
- Half of Americans know what interoperability, data portability, and data openness are, and why they matter, as well as understanding what a public interest mandate would mean for social media companies