Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cases About YouTube, Twitter Allegedly Facilitating Terrorist Groups – Epoch Times

The first case is Gonzalez v. Google LLC, court file 21-1333, an appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The high court agreed to hear the case in an unsigned order dated Oct. 3. The family of student Nohemi Gonzalez, a U.S. citizen who was killed in an ISIS attack on a bistro in Paris in November 2015, sued, claiming that Google, owner of YouTube, was liable under the Antiterrorism Act for aiding ISIS recruitment efforts by using algorithms to steer users to ISIS videos. The killing was part of a larger series of attacks the terrorist group carried out in Paris at that time. Gonzalez was one of 129 people killed during the terrorist campaign. The “plaintiffs asserted that Google had knowingly permitted I