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Twitter v. Taamneh alters the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act’s vague aiding and abetting standard but provides limited clarity.
The two cases involve the First Amendment implications of public officials blocking others on social media.
Thoughts on Gonzalez, Taamneh, and the future of Section 230.
The Supreme Court ruled that the social media companies are not liable for ISIS attacks that victims’ families claimed resulted from algorithms promoting terrorist content on their platforms.
The companion cases mark a major decision in platform liability for terrorist material hosted on their services.
The Supreme Court ruled that the FSIA does not apply to criminal cases and remanded common law arguments to the Second Circuit.
The Supreme Court remanded Halkbank, and the lower court must now consider whether the common law provides immunity from prosecution to foreign state-owned enterprises.
The Court released its 7-2 ruling on Wednesday morning.
During oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, the Supreme Court appeared to genuinely grapple with complex questions about the responsibility of social media platforms for their users’ posts.
This term, the Supreme Court is set to review the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act for the first time. Six years of litigation, increasingly targeting U.S. companies, has revealed that the statute is poorly tailored.