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Families of Buffalo massacre victims sue Meta, Reddit, and Google over conspiracy theories (gizmodo.com)
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Families of Buffalo massacre victims sue Meta, Reddit, and Google over conspiracy theories::The lawsuit seeks changes to the changes companies’ safety standards, with the plaintiffs calling the platforms “defective and unreasonably dangerous.”

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[–] Methylman 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Isn't this doomed to fail in light of the SC's guidance in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v Taamneh ??

Edit: "The platforms’ failure to remove such content, Justice Thomas wrote, was not enough to establish liability for aiding and abetting, which he said required plausible allegations that they 'gave such knowing and substantial assistance to ISIS that they culpably participated in the Reina attack.'” (copied from a NYT article)

[–] jeffw 1 points 1 year ago

That was my first thought. And it’s not like it was a 5-4 ruling that’s teetering on the edge of being reversed