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EPIC Leads Coalition of Tech Accountability Groups, Legal Scholars in Telling Ninth Circuit to Deny Meta Section 230 Protections for Alleged Addictive Design

July 1, 2025
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Updates
California, et al. v. Meta, Inc., et al.

July 1, 2025
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs
In Hearing, Judge Seemed Torn on NetChoice’s Renewed First Amendment Attack on California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code

January 24, 2025

In a hearing yesterday on NetChoice’s second motion for a preliminary injunction against California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (CAADC), Judge Beth Labson Freeman appeared far more skeptical of the trade association’s First Amendment arguments than the first time she ruled on the constitutionality of the law.
- Age Assurance
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Section 230
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Analysis
EPIC Tells Court that Privacy Protections Don’t Violate the First Amendment

December 18, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Section 230
- Updates
Design-Based Lawsuits Against Platform Companies Reveal Fault Lines in Courts’ Section 230 Interpretations

November 1, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Analysis
In Anderson v. TikTok, the Third Circuit Applies Questionable First Amendment Reasoning to Arrive at the Correct Section 230 Outcome

October 10, 2024

The opinion correctly held that Section 230 did not bar the claims to the extent that they alleged TikTok’s own algorithmic design caused the tragic circumstances, but it arrived at its decision through a questionable First Amendment analysis instead of careful Section 230 reasoning. TikTok is now asking the entire Third Circuit to re-hear the case and overturn the initial ruling.
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- The First Amendment
- Analysis
Ninth Circuit Recognizes Section 230 Not a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Tech Companies That Allegedly Lie to Users

August 22, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Updates
Section 230 & Platform Accountability

July 22, 2024
- Section 230
Doe v. Grindr

May 20, 2024

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits a lawsuit against a dating app alleging that the app was designed in a dangerous way because it repeatedly matched a high schooler with adults who sexually abused him.
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Social Media Privacy
- Amicus Briefs
McCarthy v. Amazon

December 12, 2023

Whether Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, can be sued under product liability for selling sodium nitrite to minors who used the compound to commit suicide.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs

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