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Justice Samuel Alito of the US Supreme Court asked this week what may be, to millions of average internet users, the most relatable question to come out of a pair

A lawyer for Twitter told the Supreme Court on Feb. 22 in a closely watched case that the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court justices weighed for a second straight day whether to hold internet companies accountable for contentious content posted by users.

Allegations that Twitters hosting of unrelated content on its platform contributed to an Islamic State terrorist attack prompted Supreme Court justices to ask parties on Wednesday about what liability a business would have for dealing with Osama bin Laden.

Twitter v. Taamneh, a case now at the Supreme Court, looks at whether social media companies can be partly responsible for acts by ISIS and other terrorism groups.

In the second case in as many days to focus on the platform rights of the biggest Silicon Valley firms, the high court once again seemed hesitant to disrupt the status quo.

In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seemed unlikely Tuesday to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter in a terrorist attack.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in the first case challenging critical protections for tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be argued before the high court.

We now know a bit about where some of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are leaning in one family’s landmark case against Google.

“Let’s say I retweet an ISIS video,” Amy Coney Barrett wondered aloud Tuesday during an argument that focused on a law known as "Section 230."