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Legal phrase tucked into 1996 law protects companies Facebook, Twitter and Google from being sued into oblivion for libel.

Mail or compuserve is completely asinine. isn't it time for congress to start holding mark zuckerberg and elon musk and other owners of these, these corporations, just to the same standard that everybody else is held to? why do we carve things out for -- i would have said jack dorsey before and i did say that a couple years ago. this is -- it's just insanity that we're allowing these billion dollar corporations to, to have an exemption that nobody else has. >> you know, joe, you're making a powerful case here that the law, maybe it just is out of date. i mean, listening to you talk about the w...

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.

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.

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today