consisting of the storage and processing of information by and at the request of a content provider and the dissemination of such content to third parties. (B) Exclusions Such term does not include the following: (i) Platforms that offer journalistic or editorial content (not including editorial decisions by online platforms to rank and organize third party content). (ii) Applications and functionalities that enable private communications, such as email, direct messages, and encrypted communication services. (iii) Online service providers at layers of the internet infrastructure other than the application layer, and cloud IT infrastructure service providers. (5) Personally identifiable information The term personally identifiable information means any information about an individual elicited, collected, stored, or maintained by an agency or owner or operator of an online platform, including the following: (A) Any information that can be used to distinguish or trace the identity of an individual, such as a name, a social security number, a date and place of birth, a mother’s maiden name, or biometric records. (B) Any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, or employment information. (6) Targeted violence The term targeted violence means any incident of violence in which an attacker selects a particular target prior to the incident of violence so as to suggest an intent to inflict mass injury or death and may be an act of domestic terrorism or international terrorism, or an attack that otherwise lacks a clearly discernible political or ideological motivation, such as the June 12, 2016, nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, the October 1, 2017, attack on concert-goers at a music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the August 3, 2019, mass shooting at a store in El Paso, Texas.