The U.S. Supreme Court soon will hear two cases that challenge social media platforms’ immunity from liability for content generated by third parties. The outcome could have several significant implications on how those platforms operate, including a reduction of video recommendations and more difficulty finding videos. The cases are Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter Inc. v. Taamneh.

Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, dean of the University of Georgia School of Law.Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, dean of the University of Georgia School of Law. Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge, dean of the University of Georgia School of Law.. (Courtesy photo)

The cases concern Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which provides, with some exceptions, that “[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

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