Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Sue Meta Over Church Shooting
Photographs of the nine victims killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina during a prayer vigil at the the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington in 2015.
Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe US Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms, turning away an appeal that accused Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of radicalizing a man who killed nine South Carolina churchgoers.
The rebuff ends a lawsuit filed by the daughter of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine people murdered by white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015 at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Two lower courts had thrown out the suit.