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In the US Supreme Court, Twitter accused of “blindness” to terrorism

2023-02-23T07:14:10.350Z


The social network would not have removed the tweets of the jihadist group Islamic State, nor stopped recommending them.


Twitter was accused on Wednesday of turning a blind eye to the online actions of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), during a hearing at the United States Supreme Court, responsible for deciding whether the social network could be sued for complicity in acts of terrorism.

"

There is an accusation of willful blindness here... You knew IS was using your platform

," noted Judge Sonia Sotomayor, addressing the lawyer representing the social network.

The nine judges of the instance took up a complaint filed by the relatives of a victim of an IS attack in an Istanbul nightclub in 2017.

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According to the family, Twitter is complicit in this act of terrorism for failing to remove tweets from the group or stop recommending those tweets (via automated algorithms).

The platform, supported by its rivals (Google, Facebook, etc.), ensures that being a service used by tens of millions of people around the world does not prove that it "knowingly helps"

groups

. terrorists.

YouTube also accused

On Tuesday, a hearing on a similar issue took place: the family of a victim of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris accuses YouTube (subsidiary of Google) of supporting the growth of IS by suggesting videos of the group to some users.

At the heart of both complaints is

Section 230

, a 1996 law that grants legal immunity to digital companies for content uploaded by Internet users on their platforms.

The major companies in the sector defend tooth and nail this status of hosts - and not of publishers - which, according to them, has allowed the advent of the Internet as it has taken shape.

Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed doubts about Section 230's relevance today, but also their reluctance to influence the fate of a law that has become fundamental to the digital economy.

On Wednesday, they made numerous hypotheses to determine how the platforms could be held complicit in acts of terrorism.

In 1997, “

CNN did an interview with Osama Bin Laden, a very famous interview...According to your theory, could CNN have been sued for complicity in the 9/11 attacks?

“asked, for example, judge Brett Kavanaugh.

In the US Congress, many voices are calling for an overhaul of Section 230. But given the vastly different perspectives left and right, legislative efforts to amend the text have never been successful.

Source: lefigaro

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