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NY Appeals Court: Lol, No Of Course You Can’t Sue Social Media For The Buffalo Mass Shooting
When politicians immediately blamed social media for the horrific 2022 Buffalo mass shooting—despite zero evidence linking the platforms to the attack—it was obvious deflection from actual policy f…
The scapegoating worked: survivors and victims’ families sued the social media companies, and last year a confused state court wrongly ruled that Section 230 didn’t protect them. Instead, plaintiffs’ theory of harm rests on the premise that the platforms of the social media defendants were defectively designed because they failed to filter, prioritize, or label content in a manner that would have prevented the shooter’s radicalization. At stake in these appeals is the scope of protection afforded by section 230, which Congress enacted to combat “the threat that tort-based lawsuits pose to freedom of speech [on the] Internet” (Shiamili, 17 NY3d at 286-287 [internal quotation marks omitted]).
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