newspaper, news journal, news agency, press association, wire
service, radio or television station, network or news magazine.
"Post." To share, display, provide, upload, transmit,
publish, distribute, communicate or circulate content on a
social media platform.
"Social media platform" or "platform." A public or
semipublic Internet-based service or application that has users
in this Commonwealth and that meets all of the following
criteria:
(1) A substantial function of the platform, service or
application is to connect users in order to allow users to
interact socially with each other within the service or
application, provided that a platform, service or application
that provides email or direct messaging services or cloud
computing shall not be considered to meet this criterion
solely on the basis of that function.
(2) The platform, service or application allows users to
do the following:
(i) Construct a public or semipublic profile for
purposes of signing into and using the platform, service
or application.
(ii) Populate a list of other users with whom an
individual shares a social connection within the system.
(iii) Create or post content viewable by other
users, including, but not limited to, on message boards,
in chat rooms or through a landing page or main feed that
presents the user with content generated by other users.
(3) The platform, service or application has more than
50,000,000 active users in the United States in a calendar
month.
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