(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to challenge federal protections for Internet and social media companies that exempt them from liability for content posted by users in a case involving a U.S. student who was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in 2015 of Islamist militants in Paris.
The judges appealed to the parents and other relatives of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California woman who studied in Paris, against a lower court’s ruling that cleared Google LLC-owned YouTube of wrongdoing in a lawsuit seeking monetary damages the family brought under a U.S. anti-terrorism law . Google and YouTube are part of Alphabet Inc.
The lawsuit accused Google of substantially supporting terrorism in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act, a federal law that allows Americans to recover damages related to “an act of international terrorism.”
; The lawsuit alleged that YouTube, through computer algorithms, recommended videos from the Islamic State militant group, which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, to certain users.Source link
