Tag archives: communications decency act

Will the High Court tackle social media regulation next term?

By Lindsay Weinstein (US) on July 28, 2022 Posted in General

Recently, our posts have discussed the rising call to reform Section 230 of the federal 1996 Communications Decency Act. Now, a controversial Florida Bill provides an opportunity for the Supreme Court to take up social media regulation on First Amendment grounds, potentially avoiding Section 230 reform.… Continue reading

Australia takes the international lead in social media regulation

By Cassandra Gizzo (US), Lindsay Weinstein (US), Kirk Boladeras (AU) and Siobhan Rooney (AU) on February 28, 2022 Posted in General

In December 2021, our post “Increased likelihood of US social media regulation” discussed Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and her call to hold social media platforms accountable for the potentially dangerous content that appears on their sites. In February 2022, Haugen once again flagged Facebook’s algorithms as potentially harmful, but this time Haugen was speaking outside … Continue reading

Social media apps, CDA § 230, and products liability

By Susan Ross (US) and Cassandra Gizzo (US) on May 10, 2021 Posted in General

On May 4, 2021, the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment for Snap, Inc., owner of the mobile application Snapchat, in a case brought by the parents of two teenage boys tragically killed in a car accident. The parents claimed that Snap, Inc. caused the death of their sons through its negligent design of … Continue reading

Internet reviews and the Communications Decency Act of 1996

By Caleb Segrest (US) on August 21, 2018 Posted in Defamation

We have previously written about the U.S. legal landscape regarding consumers’ rights to post negative reviews of products or services on the internet, including some of the implications of the Consumer Review Fairness Act on these rights. The Consumer Review Fairness Act was passed in December of 2016 in response to some businesses’ efforts to … Continue reading

Did Twitter violate Anti-Terrorism Act by providing ISIS accounts?

By Caleb Segrest (US) on August 23, 2016 Posted in General, Litigation

On August 10, 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in Fields v. Twitter, Inc., dismissed the plaintiffs’ complaint against Twitter with leave to amend. The plaintiffs’ complaint arose out of the deaths of Lloyd Fields, Jr. and James Damon Creach, two United States government contractors who were working at … Continue reading