Twitter, Facebook Can’t Be Sued for Radicalizing Pulse Shooter

Twitter Inc., Google LLC, and Facebook Inc. can’t be held responsible for the June 2016 mass shooting at Pulse Night Club in Orlando, Fla., the Sixth Circuit affirmed April 16.

“We sympathize with plaintiffs—they suffered through one of the worst terrorist attacks in American history,” Judge John B. Nalbandian wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

But the victims’ families didn’t adequately allege that the social media platforms had any direct connection to the shooter or his heinous act, the court said.

The families of three Pulse victims sued under the Anti-Terrorism Act alleging ...