This week, the Supreme Court hears challenges to Section 230 — which gives social media companies a legal shield over what users post online.
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments this week in two cases that test Section 230, the law that provides tech companies a legal shield over what their users post online.Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Representing the terrorism victims against Google and Twitter, lawyer Eric Schnapper will tell the Supreme Court this week that when Section 230 was enacted, social media companies wanted people to subscribe to their services, but today the economic model is different. "The attorney general, the director of the FBI, the director of national intelligence, and the then-White House chief of staff . . . those government officials . . . told them exactly that," he says."We believe that there's no place for extremist content on any of our products or platforms," she says, noting that Google has"heavily invested in human review" and"smart detection technology," to "make sure that happens.
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