The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Google, Facebook and Twitter cannot be prosecuted based on allegations that these sites helped the ISIS terrorist organization spread its propaganda.
Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling marks a major victory for three giant tech groups.
The Supreme Court made its decision without entering into a broader debate about a law that has protected tech groups from lawsuits over the content they post online for a quarter of a century. The court ruled in two separate cases.
In the first case, the parents of a young American woman killed in the November 2015 Paris attacks filed a complaint against Google, the parent company of YouTube, accusing it of supporting the spread of the terrorist group ISIS by offering its videos. some users.
In the second case, relatives of the victim of the Istanbul nightclub attack on January 1, 2017 felt that Facebook, Twitter and Google could be considered complicit in the attack due to their efforts to take down ISIS content. strong enough.
Judge Clarence Thomas wrote in a unanimous court ruling that these companies cannot be considered “publishers” and they have legal immunity to content published on their platforms.
Source: AFP.
