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2:30. heres what it is. a legal shield that protects platforms from legal identity from content provided by third parties. platforms have immunity from moderated content as they see fit. weve all seen the downside of this. the algorithms feed you often pernicious, dangerous stuff. i think of teenage girls. teenage girls who are fed anorexia content and it makes them sicker. >> its very complex subject but really there is a problem when the internet in and of itself causes harm. first of all, thi...

Lets get down to business. americas supreme court is set to hear two cases back—to—back that could reshape the internet. the first is gonzalez vs google. the second case being heard on wednesday is twitter vs taamneh. both deal with whether tech platforms should have legal immunity for what their users choose to post. for more, heres our north america business correspondent michelle fleury. should tech companies be held liable for harmful content promoted by their algorithms? that is the que...

Mike broomhead kaivan shroff and harry litman. harry tell us how these cases and for the same cream quarter change relies. >> so we ever do a google search and its your first grade teacher and your favorite food and how the heck today know that? they know that because these algorithms. you know what you have done before and they send it your way, they would say theyre just trying to help you out, kind of curating. thats independent input from google. what the law says is if you are just publishi...

Three months ago and already our technological and informational landscape has been so transferred. imagine what will happen a year now, three years from now, five years from now. what were going to be seeing increasingly is that all of these decisions in education, in admissions in the medical field, dating site algorithms, anything you can imagine, are going to be made for us by these opaque algorithms. right now at least, we can play with the algorithm and clearly see the biases. 10 or 20 yea...

That is posted by third parties. the justices will for the first time consider the scope of the law in the gonzalez versus google case. it was brought by the family of gonzalez, the only american killed in the 2015 paris terror attacks. the lawsuit argues algorithms on youtube which is opened by google promoted terrorist content online which then aided and abetted isis. lawyers for google say that the company is not responsible because of section 230. >> yeah. its really significant be. sara fis...

This. if anything, it will get punted to congress. >> interesting because you made the observation earlier to hear, both sites looked like they were in agreement? >> yes, the most liberal justices and most conservative. >> so this is -- it has gone on channel, 230 to now. what do you think the chances are -- you are an observer of this. what do you think the chances are something will be done? you said you think it will be punted down. is that for sure? >> no. i dont think that the supreme court...

Point by the way that the plaintiff was making. they werent saying that the fact that this was published is the problem. the fact that the algorithms used by google amplified it and that was the problem. to your point, do i think that congress is going to actually challenge this? the problem is they are divided right now. conservatives have long focused on censorship. democrats have focused on misinformation. i think its hard for them to fundamentally change a law like this if they are not in ag...

The company is operating legitimately would not be liable even if they know that bad people are doing bad things down the road. the key here said seth waxman is when post material actually are part of planning an attack that twitter or the other social media platforms would know about, a much deeper connection. now, the other thing that the families say is that, you know, the algorithms that rank and make recommendations, that that is a enough for liability, and thats why theyve brought this cas...

It was so interesting yesterday when justice kagan said its not like were the nine greatest experts in the internet. what more do we hear about that and whether any of what they said yesterday could give us an inkling of whats going to happen today. >> its something we should think about going into today, that basically, justices gorsuch and kagan actually agree that it probably isnt the supreme courts job to be weighing in here between these two extreme sides. yesterday you had the argument tha...

>> todd: they are like, whats going on? >> cheryl: you have this -- the parents, victims of terrorism going up against google, specifically youtube. their daughter died in 2015, in paris, it is a class-action suit, a lawsuit. this is basically family saying youtube, the way they use algorithms to target a user, if you go to youtube, they will give you things customized to you. when it is isis videos, the parents are like, hold on. the lawyers made is fun for the supreme court, the lawyers got te...