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Social Media Company Liability Draws Supreme Court Scrutiny
The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued for hosting and recommending terrorist content, taking up two cases that challenge their liability protections. The cases mark the court’s first test of the broad immunity social media companies have enjoyed under a provision known as Section 230, part of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. But the law has drawn criticism from both Democrats and Republicans amid questions about whether social media companies have become too powerful. In one case, Alphabet Inc.’s Google is trying to defeat a suit involving Nohemi Go
Parent Claims Over Social Media Addiction Echo Big Tobacco Suits (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/23/2022 - 06:42Gaming platform Twitch's design enables people to find and exploit kids in real-time (Bloomberg)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 09/21/2022 - 11:23Meta Antitrust Suit Should Be Reinstated on Appeal, States Argue (Bloomberg)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 09/20/2022 - 16:50Meta Seeks Out Secrets From Over 100 Companies to Win Antitrust Suit (Bloomberg)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 09/13/2022 - 10:30Google Pays ‘Enormous’ Sums to Maintain Search-Engine Dominance, Says Department of Justice (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 06:23More than 30 House Republicans want Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to hand over FBI Communications (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/02/2022 - 05:59Meta Signs $37.5 Million Deal Over Facebook Location Tracking
Meta Platforms signed a $37.5 million class settlement with Facebook users who say the platform continued tracking their locations after they turned off location services on their devices, according to a filing in San Francisco federal court. The settlement by the US District Court for the Northern District of California covered about 70 million US residents who used Facebook between Jan. 30, 2015 and April 18, 2018 and who turned off the location services setting for the Facebook application on their iOS or Android devices.