Complainants originally sought $3 billion in damages from Facebook for allowing Hamas to use its platform to encourage terrorist attacks in Israel.
Inc defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks on Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its terroristic goals.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the Communications Decency Act , a 1996 law regulating internet content, shieldedIt also declined to consider the plaintiffs’ foreign law claims, noting that most plaintiffs, including relatives and estates of victims, said they were Americans living in Israel., for allowing Hamas to use its platform to encourage terrorist attacks in Israel, celebrate successful attacks, and generally support violence toward that country.
Their complaint described Hamas attacks against five Americans, four of whom died, in Israel from 2014 to 2016., based in Menlo Park, California, did not immediately respond to similar requests.and Twitter Inc liable for failing to better police users’ online speech.It upheld a May 2017 dismissal by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn.
liable because its “friend” and content-based algorithms might have helped direct people interested in Hamas.through such algorithms — even if the content is not actively sought by those users — is not enough to holdChief Judge Robert Katzmann, part of the three-judge appeals court panel, dissented from the algorithms discussion.
He said Congress did not consider how broadly to immunize social media companies, when it passed the CDA to regulate online pornography, and might rethink how to treat those accused of encouraging terrorism, propaganda and extremism.“It is fair to ask whether the rules that governed its infancy should still oversee its adulthood,” he added.The case is Force et al v.
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