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In a case with the potential to alter the very structure of the internet, the Supreme Court explored Tuesday the limits of a federal law that shields social media platforms from legal responsibility for what users post on their sites.

WASHINGTON -- In November 2015, three rifle-wielding ISIS gunmen opened fire at restaurant in Paris, killing 23-year-old Nohemi Gonzalez, a college exchange student. Almost eight years later, her family is seeking justice for her death, targeting not the gunmen, but the tech giant YouTube, in a landmark case that could shift the foundations of internet law.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez vs. Google, a lawsuit that argues tech companies should be legally liable for harmful content that their algorithms promote.

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Could fixing Facebook algorithms bridge our political divides? Could fixing Facebook algorithms bridge our political divides? Proposed U.S. legislation aims to make Facebook accountable for misinformation by targeting algorithms rather than content By Aeryn Pfaff A Biden supporter has a conversation with a Trump supporter on the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 6. We’ve all heard the calls for unity since the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donal...

CompuServe Inc extended distributor liability to digital intermediaries that exercised little or no editorial control over third‐​party content, offering them the protections traditionally granted to newsstands and booksellers. This protected CompuServe from Cubby’s defamation claim, though it left open the possibility that CompuServe might have been liable for Rumorville’s defamation had it failed to act after being made aware of the defamatory content. In 1995, Stratton Oakmont Inc.,...

December 3, 2020 Seemingly everyone in Washington, DC wants to scrap Section 230, a snippet of the 1996 Communications Decency Act originally designed to help websites moderate online porn. On Dec. 2, US president Donald Trump threatened to veto a normally bipartisan military funding bill unless Congress “completely terminated” Section 230. That stance is a rare point of agreement with his successor, president-elect Joe Biden, who told the New York Times that “Section 230 should be revoke...