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A bipartisan group of senators introduced the Filter Bubble Transparency Act that would force large online platforms to be more transparent about how their algorithms find content to share. The bill would require companies that collect data from more than 1 million users and make more than $50 million per year to notify users that their platforms use algorithms to determine what information is shown and offer users the opportunity to opt-out of curated content.

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) said that he was “pleased to see the [Federal Communications Commission] address the threat to network security posed by vendors such as Huawei and ZTE,” calling it a “critical first step.” But Vice Chairman Warner also said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai should have acted sooner and he "urged" the Trump administration to “work with Congress to pass legislation to help rural carriers remove legacy equipment and to harden the U.S. telecommunications supply chain." "There is a lot of work left to be done,” Warner added.