1. Short title This Act may be cited as the “ Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act ”. 2. Restrictions on dissemination of targeted political advertisements by online platforms (a) Restrictions (1) In general Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 325. Restrictions on dissemination of targeted political advertisements by online platforms (a) Restrictions on advertisements targeted at individuals or at specific groups of individuals (1) Restrictions A covered online platform or an agent, affiliate, vendor, or other person acting on behalf of such a platform may not target the dissemination of a political advertisement on such platform to an individual or to a specific group of individuals on any basis. (2) Actions constituting targeting A covered online platform or an agent, affiliate, vendor, or other person acting on behalf of such a platform shall be considered to target the dissemination of a political advertisement to an individual or to a specific group of individuals if such platform— (A) performs or causes to perform any computational process (including one based on algorithmic models, machine learning, statistical analysis, or other data processing or artificial intelligence techniques) designed to transmit or display the advertisement to a subset of the users of such platform selected based on personal information pertaining to the individuals who make up the subset of users