Google to go before U.S. Supreme Court to defend Section 230, WSJ reports

Google (GOOG;GOOGL) will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week to defend Section 230, a law that gives internet platforms legal immunity for almost all third-party content hosted on their sites, John McKinnon of The Wall Street Journal reports. A decision to limit that immunity could scramble business models of the largest internet companies, especially social media platforms such as Instagram (META), TikTok, and YouTube. Republican and Democratic lawmakers worry the immunity law has helped spread the promotion of harmful content to vulnerable groups. The supreme court case, Gonzalez v. Google, was brought by the family of an American college student who was killed during the 2015 Paris terrorist attacked. The plaintiffs allege YouTube failed to take down some ISIS terrorist videos and recommended them to users, which they argue makes Google liable for damages under the Anti-Terrorism act. Reference Link