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As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the first bill would require social platforms to publicly disclose how their algorithms work, in an effort to show how sites such as Facebook use technology that amplifies salacious content like conspiracy theories about the virus. The second bill would make it easier for the state to discipline physicians who spread incorrect claims about covid-19.