The Supreme Court could finally decide if social media is legally responsible for what it broadcasts. The justices have agreed to take the case ofNohemi Gonzalez was a California student studying abroad in Paris in 2015 – when ISIS terrorists attacked a stadium, a concert hall, and the restaurant where she was eating.Nohemi was among the 130 people killed that night. And when her family discovered that YouTube – which is owned by Google – had hosted ISIS recruitment videos, they sued.
But social media is all grown up now. And Google doesn’t merely post videos, it also uses algorithms thatvideos. And the Gonzalez family argues that those algorithms actively directed terrorist videos to people with terrorist tendencies and that the company, therefore, bears some responsibility for what happened to their daughter.