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WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices reacted skeptically Tuesday to claims that YouTube parent Google LLC could be sued for algorithms that automatically recommended extremist recruiting videos, in the first session of a two-day round of arguments testing the liability of internet providers for material posted online.
A 1996 measure, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, shields providers from liability for content others upload to their platforms, a protection the industry says permitted the internet economy to grow into the giant it has become. At the same time, such immunity has been blamed for the proliferation of noxious content—including, in this week’s cases, posts that allegedly helped foment attacks by the terrorist group Islamic State, or ISIS.
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