A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.

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Introduced

2 July 2020

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Status

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Summary

This bill requires a news outlet that is an agent of a foreign principal to provide certain disclosures. Specifically, any news outlet that is required to register as an agent of a foreign principal must include, in any transmission in or into the United States, that the transmission is made by an agent of a foreign principal and that additional infomation is on file with the Department of Justice.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4207
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