Supreme Court unanimously sides with Twitter in ISIS attack case

Photo caption: The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday, April 21, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Article by Nina Totenberg. NPR – May 18, 2023.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed social media companies a major victory Thursday in the first test case involving the immunity from lawsuits granted to internet platforms for the content they publish online. In two separate cases, one against Twitter, the other against Google, the families of people killed in terrorist bombing attacks in Istanbul and Paris sued Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube, claiming that the companies had violated the federal Anti-Terrorism Act, which specifically allows civil damage claims for aiding and abetting terrorism. […]

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