ANALYSIS: Product Claims Spike as SCOTUS Ponders Section 230 Fix

Last week, the US Supreme Court heard two social media cases, one of which questioned the scope of immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The statute has provided broad protection to social media platforms, particularly with respect to defamation claims arising from third-party content.

But defamation claims aren’t what the social media platforms have been primarily concerned with as of late. Lisa Blatt, counsel for Google, noted during the Feb. 21 oral argument at the high court in the Section 230 case, Gonzalez v. Google, that social media platforms are worried about product liability ...