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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by a group of women suing Reddit and alleging the online platform is profiting from the posting of child pornography, allowing an earlier decision in favor of the popular website to stand.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by a group of women suing Reddit and alleging the online platform is profiting from the posting of child pornography, allowing an earlier decision in favor of the popular website to stand.

Jonathan Greenblatt spoke on hatred, antisemitism and how to work against it at Campbell Hall on May 22.

Google, Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies fueled by social media have dodged a legal threat that could have blown a huge hole in their business models. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered the reprieve on May 18 by rejecting one lawsuit alleging social media platforms s...

Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a statute passed when the Internet was in its relative infancy, gives broad immunity to online platforms, generally protecting them from lawsuits...

“The victims accuse the social media giants of knowingly providing services to groups like ISIS and Hezbollah.”

'The victims accuse the social media giants of knowingly providing services to groups like ISIS and Hezbollah.'

But other cases involving what's known as Section 230 may be brought later could result in adverse decisions down the line.

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered tech companies a reprieve Thursday by rejecting one lawsuit alleging social media platforms should be held liable for enabling a lethal attack on a Turkish nightclub and tossing another case back to a lower court.Those moves, coming three months after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the cases, preserve a law known as Section 230 that shields social media services from being held responsible for the material posted on their platforms.