WASHINGTON : The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear for a second straight day a bid to hold internet companies accountable for contentious content posted by users, this time involving a lawsuit against Twitter Inc by the American relatives of a Jordanian man killed in a Istanbul nightclub massacre.
The justices on Tuesday heard arguments in an appeal arising from a separate lawsuit against Google LLC-owned YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc, by the family of an American woman killed in a Paris attack by Islamist militants. Both lawsuits were brought under a U.S. law that enables Americans to recover damages related to"an act of international terrorism."
Twitter is appealing after a lower court allowed that lawsuit to proceed and found that the company had refused to take"meaningful steps" to prevent Islamic State's use of the social media platform. That case involves a bid by the family of an American woman named Nohemi Gonzalez who was fatally shot in a 2015 rampage in Paris - an attack for which Islamic State also claimed responsibility - to hold Google liable for recommending to certain YouTube users content from the group.
A key issue is whether the family's claims sufficiently allege that the company knowingly provided"substantial assistance" to an"act of international terrorism" that would allow the relatives to maintain their suit and seek damages under the anti-terrorism law.
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