1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Social Media Accountability and Account Verification Act . 2. Definitions As used in this Act, the following definitions apply: (1) The term appropriate congressional committees means Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. (2) The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. (3) The term deceptive account or profile means, with respect to a social media platform, an account or profile created by a user that— (A) (i) purports to be of an individual who is not the individual who created such account or profile; or (ii) uses the name or likeness of another individual; and (B) is utilized by a user to— (i) perpetrate or attempt to perpetrate financial or physical harm, or threat of financial or physical harm, or other crime against another user; or (ii) furnish information to other users as a means of assisting or participating in financial or physical harm, or threat of financial or physical harm, or another crime against another user. (4) The term social media company means any person that owns, manages, or operates a social media platform. (5) The term social media platform — (A) means a website or internet medium that— (i) permits a person to become a registered user, establish an account, or create a profile for the purpose of allowing users to create, share, and view user-generated content through such an account or profile; (ii) enables one or more users to generate content that can be viewed by other users of the medium; and (iii) primarily serves as a medium for users to interact with content generated by other users of the medium; and (B) does not include— (i) any such platform that serves fewer than 100,000 users; (ii) an email program, email distribution lists, multi-person text message groups, or a website that is primarily for the purpose of internet commerce