Supreme Court justices sounded split over whether social media firms can be sued for aiding terrorists.
The Supreme Court justices sounded split Wednesday over whether social media firms can be sued and potentially held liable for aiding international terrorists.
But some justices sounded open to allowing lawsuits against Google, Facebook or Twitter for giving a platform to terrorists.“You’re not liable for providing a platform that you knew [terrorists] were using to recruit people and to help arrange other terrorist acts?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked dubiously.
Justice Clarence Thomas — who also sounded skeptical of Twitter’s argument — asked its attorney about the meaning of aiding and abetting. Waxman seemed to make more headway by warning of the consequences of a ruling that would open the door to such lawsuits. Deputy Solicitor Gen. Edwin Kneedler, siding with Twitter, agreed the suit should be dismissed because there was no evidence that the social media site deliberately aided terrorists.
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch saw a separate reason to dismiss the suit. The 2016 law refers to aid or assistance to the “person who committed an act of international terrorism.”
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