The Biden administration is taking a nuanced stand against the tech giants
. In 2015 Nohemi Gonzalez, an American woman, was murdered in an Islamic State attack in Paris. Her family says the algorithms on YouTube fed radicalising videos to the terrorists who killed her. Theplaintiffs are relatives of Nawras Alassaf, a Jordanian killed in Istanbul in 2017. They contend that Section 230 should not hide the role Twitter, Facebook and Google played in grooming the.
But nearly 50 amicus briefs opposing a rejigging of Section 230 warn of unintended consequences. An internet resembling Borges’s useless library is one worry. Meta, which owns Facebook, notes that “virtually every online service” highlights content that is “relevant” to particular users. The algorithms matching posts with users are “indispensable”, the company says, to sift through “thousands or millions” of articles, photos or reviews.
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