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US Supreme Court: Facebook is not responsible for inciting social network terrorism and murdering Israelis | Israel Today

2020-05-19T13:32:44.877Z


After a legal battle that lasted about four years, the US Supreme Court ruled that the social network will not be responsible for writing content that incites terrorism | Social Networks


After a four-year legal battle, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the social network will not bear the responsibility and consequences of writing violent content from social media users calling for incitement to terrorism and murder against Israelis

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Irresponsible for incitement: US Supreme Court refused to hear Appeal ruling, saying Facebook is not responsible for incitement calls on social network, is under no obligation to remove these calls, and therefore will not compensate Israeli-American terrorist who were harmed by platform use Hamas terror organization. 

The reason for the ruling lies in the fact that in the top United States it limits itself to how many cases will be debated per year, and in fact chooses which cases to discuss and which ones do not. That decision upheld the federal court's ruling as final.

As first published in Israel today, in July 2016, a US $ 1 billion lawsuit was filed against the United States Federal Court by the "Law of Justice" organization specializing in legal-economic fight against terrorist organizations.

The lawsuit represents the family of the late US citizen killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem by a Hamas terrorist, and the late Naftali Frankel, one of the three youths kidnapped and killed by the Hamas squad, along with the families of three other Israeli-American terror victims who were injured Or murdered, by Palestinian terrorists.

The lawsuit claimed, among other things, that Facebook knowingly provides its services as a social media to Hamas terror organization and individual terrorists. According to the lawsuit, Facebook violates the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), enacted in 1992, which prohibits American businesses from assisting with any material supplies, including services, which are intended for terrorist organizations and their leaders.

After the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, the French government asked the company to remove Daesh incitement posts, and indeed the company removed more than 32,000 content that incited terror or violence. Israel joined the request but encountered a sealed wall. In the meantime, a "rule of law" investigation revealed that the company removes incitement posts against Palestinians or Muslims, but those posts with the same content are not really removed, if they target thousands of Israelis. 

The lawsuit, filed by President of the Judiciary, Advocate Nitzana Darshan-Lightner, at the 2016 New York Federal District Court, requires damages and punishments for American victims of five different attacks, which occurred between June 2014 and March 2016.

All these attacks were carried out by Hamas, known in the Western world as a terrorist organization. About a year later, the district court dismissed the lawsuit and then appealed to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court, which ultimately rejected the claims and ruled that Facebook could not be held responsible for its published content and thereby granted immunity.

The lawsuit states that Hamas officials, including Ismail Haniya, senior leaders of the organization, and Mahmoud al-Zahar, spokesman for the organization, use the social networking services through their own account, and use them for the most horrific attacks against innocent civilians. 

Judiciary president Nitzana Darshan-Leitner responded to the ruling: "It is not possible for the court to legalize incitement to terrorism and violence on social networks while turning a blind eye on media platform operators such as Facebook. This decision constitutes fertile ground for incitement to violence for terrorist organizations - and this time under the auspices of the court. Our fight is not over and we will continue to support the victims of terrorism that will require legislative change on this issue. "

Source: israelhayom

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