immunity that says you can t take action against a big tech company under almost all circumstances. reporter: the case was gonzalez v. google. the family of a young woman killed in the 2015 terrorist attack in paris alleges that google, owner of youtube, designed an algorithm that recommended isis videos to users effectively helping to spread their terror message. today, the supreme court is hearing a case that could profoundly change the way you and i use the internet fundamentally disrupt the internet. reshape the internet as we know it. reporter: the court was being asked to decide if section 230 should still shield tech companies from liability or if the algorithms created to promote and recommend third-party content to users is a kind of editorial decision, speech they can be held
the issues nothing that cocaine is a big deal and maybe they now believe we should focus on rehabilitating set of stigmatizing the folks and here s the reaction to donald trump having this simple string. fundamental civil starting to be run on twitter, not just from sitting all the time, a coke user, why did you go there. you cannot make a diagnosis over television but he has some interesting while that is actually a signature people use cocaine. ty.lawrence: let s not forget tt everything is first family during the trump administration from the looks of things, instant hit printed be the name of doctor okay delivery service because it sure seems like he s customer this algorithm. lawrence: because people beg will not big cooking was out of the white house during time with the president son, drug use, has
the issues nothing that cocaine is a big deal and maybe they now believe we should focus on rehabilitating set of stigmatizing the folks and here s the reaction to donald trump having this simple string. fundamental civil starting to be run on twitter, not just from sitting all the time, a coke user, why did you go there. you cannot make a diagnosis over television but he has some interesting while that is actually a signature people use cocaine. tyrus.lawrence: let s not forget everything is first family during the trump administration from the looks of things, instant hit printed be the name of doctor okay delivery service because it sure seems like he s customer this algorithm. lawrence: because people beg will not big cooking was out of the white house during time with the president son, drug use, has
alternatives have also launched since elon musk took over last october, threads is the first to really take off. the new york times describes it this way. quote, too many users, twitter had become like a bad boyfriend. under mosque, the platform could be unreliable and unfiltered. some users called it toxic. they encourage their users to get off the platform. including his algorithm changes in his decision to reinstate donald trump s account. as promised, molly is back with us. angela carson, i was desperate to talk to you about this. both from the vantage point of what this means for a technology platform, and lots of questions we need to have a like users. or how it isn t being protected. but also, the context of what this potential move means for our political discourse. since that is what you and i and mali return to over and over again.
app they are copying. it is actually some sort of proprietary trade secret about the algorithm. it s interesting, i have to say, is the timing of all of this. i think things really came to ahead with twitter with the russian invasion, with the rebellion i should say of the wagner mercenary group. yevgeny prigozhin. i think a lot of people were looking to twitter for news. because of how elon musk has changed the approval process and a check mark process, a lot of folks could not necessarily decipher what was real and what was fake news. is there anything to the timing of threads? the launch of threats? i think so. i think for a lot of folks it is harder for them, now, to decipher what is a trusted new source on twitter and what isn t. twitter did take away those blue check marks from news organizations reporters, unless they play for a twitter blue.