Social Media Backed By Supreme Court

(AP) The Supreme Court has sided with Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for terrorist attacks. The justices sidestepped the big issue hovering over the cases — namely the federal law that shields social media companies from being sued over content posted by others. The cases were brought by families of victims killed in the terrorist attacks. The justices unanimously rejected a lawsuit alleging that the companies allowed their platforms to be used to aid and abet an attack in Turkey. In the case of an American college student who was killed in an Islamic State terrorist attack in Paris, a unanimous court returned the case to a lower court, but said there appeared to be little, if anything, left of it.