Verified sources.
Clear updates.
New York’s top judges struggled on Tuesday to see how Meta Platforms Inc. , Reddit Inc., and Alphabet Inc.'s Google can be held liable for a 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, without exposing social media companies to broad liability for harms perpetuated by users. Survivors and family members of the shooting victims in four consolidated cases want the New York Court of Appeals to revive their claims that the algorithms the social media sites use to push out tailored content are defective and designed to addict young users. They want to hold the companies accountable for disseminating harmful content . Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis. Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources.
Missing media or need the complete publisher report? Open Bloomberg Law News
Media link supplied by the Scoop Newsroom app.
The text below was supplied by the Scoop Newsroom app. Third-party reporting is attributed in the source panel.
No additional independently verified detail is available beyond the summary above. The original reporting remains linked in the source panel.
