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Two high-profile cases that came before the U.S. Supreme Court truly had the legal teams at Big Tech ...

The Supreme Court declined to rule on Section 230 in a win for Silicon Valley's giants.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Twitter in a case experts said could have fundamentally changed how the internet works.

Case, a decision on the google case yamiche just mentioned. fill us in, what was the latest there, was it the same as twitter? >> essentially, yes. this is a big win for the tech companies that were worried that this shield law known as section 230, which for years has allowed the tech companies to avoid liability for what users post on social media, they essentially dodged that whole issue and decided that these plaintiffs couldn't actually make a claim under an entirely different law, an antiterrorism statute. and they said because they'd even make a claim, they don't have to reach the secti...

Lawsuits against social media alleging that they're responsible for contributing to tearist attacks, almost universally those lawsuits have failed. >> reporter: analysts say the first amendment protection of free speech often derails lawsuits against social media companies, as well as section 230, which classifies internet platforms as intermediaries. >> a principal that says the people who initiated it are responsible for it but not the intermediaries in the middle that make it available to the consumer. >> reporter: cnn has reached out to all the defendants of the suit. snapchat issued a sta...