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Social Media Services Aren't Liable for Buffalo Mass-Shooting-Patterson v. Meta
The New York state intermediate appeals court has issued a significant ruling dismissing four lawsuits that sought to hold many social media services (Facebook, Instagram, Snap, Google, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, Amazon and 4Chan) liable for the 2022 Buffalo mass-shooting....
The New York state intermediate appeals court has issued a significant ruling dismissing four lawsuits that sought to hold many social media services (Facebook, Instagram, Snap, Google, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, Amazon and 4Chan) liable for the 2022 Buffalo mass-shooting. 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. the use of design functions, such as algorithmic models that “autoplay” videos or create an “infinite feed,” constitutes the “creation or development of information” that would render defendants first-party content providers and, thus, not immune from liability under section 230
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