The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared wary of a lawsuit seeking to hold Twitter, Facebook, and Google liable for aiding and abetting international terrorism based on ISIS’s use of the companies’ platforms. But during nearly three hours of oral argument, the justices struggled to draw a line between holding organizations responsible for supporting terrorism and allowing organizations to go about legitimate business, even if they may come in contact with terrorists as part of that business.
The dispute, Twitter v. Taamneh, stems from a lawsuit filed by the family of a Jordanian citizen who was killed in an ISIS attack on an Istanbul nightclub in 2017.
