Section 230

  • 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

    • Big Data

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • In re: Casino-Style Games Litigation

    November 3, 2023

    Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which prohibits treating internet companies as the speakers of third-party information, prevents lawsuits against internet companies who sell illegal products provided by third parties on their online marketplaces.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • Bride et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc.

    August 21, 2023

    Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits (1) misrepresentation claims against internet companies who, after claiming in their terms of service that they would ban and reveal the identities of users who cyberbullied others, then refused to do so, and (2) products liability claims against the same defendants for designing an allegedly unsafe messaging product that allowed users to send anonymous, abusive messages to teens.

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • Gonzalez v. Google

    December 8, 2022

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • Herrick v. Grindr, LLC

    May 30, 2018

    Whether Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields Grindr, a dating app, from liability for failing to remove fake profiles that used the Plaintiff's name and likeness and posed a danger to his personal safety

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Online Harassment

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs