Supreme Court hears case that has sweeping implications for the internet and misinformation

The media and public are screened before entering the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Tuesday, where justices heard oral arguments in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, a legal battle with the potential to reshape how online platforms handle speech and content moderation.

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U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared broadly concerned Tuesday about the potential unintended consequences of allowing websites to be sued for their automatic recommendations of user content, highlighting the challenges facing attorneys that want to hold Google accountable for suggesting YouTube videos created by terrorist groups.

For nearly three hours, the nine justices peppered attorneys representing Google, the US government and the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, an American student killed in a 2015 ISIS attack in Paris, with questions about how the court could design a ruling that exposes harmful content recommendations to liability while still protecting innocuous ones.

How – or if – the court draws that line could have significant implications for the way websites choose to rank, display and promote content to their users as they seek to avoid a litigation minefield. MORE