MANHATTAN — A New York appeals court ruled that social media companies including Meta, YouTube, Discord, 4chan, Twitch and Reddit cannot be sued for promoting rhetoric that influenced the 2022 Buffalo mass shooter. The plaintiffs sued on a theory that these companies are product designers, and not publishers of First Amendment-protected speech, but the argument failed because even this argument, at base, seeks to hold them “liable as publishers of third-party content.”
Read the ruling here.
Read our prior coverage of this lawsuit here.
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