Section 22589.3 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Civil penalties(a)(1) Any social media platform that violates a requirement of this chapter shall be liable for ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each violation and for compensatory damages, punitive damages, and any civil remedies, penalties, or sanctions for harms caused by the social media platform's failure to comply with this chapter, which damages shall be adjudicated and awarded apart from any harms attributable to the existence of the reported content alone and which shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought by any person set forth in Section 22589.2.(2) In a successful action brought to enforce this chapter, the court may order injunctive relief to obtain compliance with this chapter and may award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing plaintiff.(b) For purposes of this section, each day a social media platform is in violation of a requirement of this chapter constitutes a separate violation.(c)(1) The remedies provided by this section are in addition to any other civil, criminal, and administrative remedies, penalties, or sanctions provided by law and do not supplant, but are cumulative to, other remedies, penalties, or sanctions.(2) The duties and obligations imposed by this section are cumulative with any other duties or obligations imposed under other law and shall not be construed to relieve any party from any duties or obligations imposed under other law.(3) This section does not impose liability on a social media platform if such liability is prohibited by Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code.Ca. Bus. and Prof. Code § 22589.3
Amended by Stats 2024 ch 900 (SB 1504),s 4, eff. 1/1/2025.Added by Stats 2022 ch 700 (AB 2879),s 1, eff. 1/1/2023.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.