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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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[–] fubo 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This seems unlikely to succeed. "He wouldn't have killed those people if he hadn't read that book with those weird ideas in it!" is unlikely to ever justify finding the publisher of that book liable, under plain First Amendment jurisprudence.

[–] c0c0c0 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet, somehow, I feel like the lawyers who took this unwinnable case are going to come out okay.

[–] Methylman 3 points 1 year ago

One of life's truisms: everyone can lose except the lawyers involved

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