High Court to Probe Tech Shield in YouTube Terrorism Video Case

The US Supreme Court will hear a case challenging whether YouTube’s recommendation algorithm can receive legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a decades-old law that helped shape the modern internet but has faced growing criticism in recent years.

Family members of a US citizen killed in the 2015 ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris are arguing that YouTube’s advanced algorithms that recommend videos to particular users allowed the terrorist group to amplify its message and radicalize its followers.

Section 230 generally protects social media platforms from the legal consequences of the content that their users create. But ...