Twitter Ruled Not Liable for ISIS Tweets Leading to Attack
- Twitter can’t be blamed for terrorist content on its pages
- Widow of victim in Jordan attack allowed to revise lawsuit
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Twitter Inc. won a court ruling that it can’t be held responsible for the so-called Islamic State’s use of the social network to spread propaganda that may have led to the death of an American in Amman, Jordan.
U.S. law protects Twitter from being treated as a publisher of any information provided by another content provider, a San Francisco federal judge ruled Wednesday. In this case, ISIS claimed responsibility for the murder of a U.S. contractor by a gunman who may have received material by one of the terror group’s many Twitter handles.