1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bot Disclosure and Accountability Act of 2019 . 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the United States Government has a compelling interest in— (1) mitigating the deceptiveness of social media bots, which impersonate human activity online, through public disclosure requirements that impose a minimal burden on rights protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and (2) mitigating the effectiveness of efforts by foreign entities to influence United States elections through the use of social media bots to spread misinformation and propaganda. 3. Public disclosure of software programs intended to impersonate or replicate human activity (a) Definitions (1) In general In this section— (A) the term automated software program or process intended to impersonate or replicate human activity online has the meaning given the term by the Commission by regulation under paragraph (2); (B) the term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission; (C) the term social media provider means any person that owns or operates a social media website