The Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the broad liability protections enjoyed by Google, Facebook and other social media companies for the third party content posted on their platforms.
More specifically, the high court will examine whether tech platforms are protected when their algorithms recommend problematic content to users.
The family of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in an ISIS attack in Paris in 2015, sued Google over the videos, alleging that they “aided and abetted” ISIS by allowing ISIS terrorist videos on YouTube as well as including them in users’ recommendations.
The Section 230 provision of the Communications Decency Act generally protects tech platforms from the way that they moderate third party content.
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