Supreme Court sides with Twitter, Google in high-stakes cases on social media, terrorism
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with social media giants in a case brought by families of victims in a terrorist attack in Turkey. A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google and Twitter in a pair of cases that had alleged social media liability in terror attacks overseas. Justice Clarence Thomas in an opinion for the Twitter case said that families of victims of a 2017 ISIS attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, did not adequately show that the online platforms had "aided and abetted" the terrorists in violation of federal law. "Plaintiffs have failed to allege that defendants intentionally provided any substantial aid to the Reina attack or otherwise consciously participating in the Reina attack -- much less that defendants so pervasively and systemically assisted ISIS as to render them liable for every ISIS attack," Thomas wrote. The Reina nightclub by the Bosphorus after mass shooting on New Year's Eve, Jan. 1, 2017 in Istanbul, T...