Twitter, Facebook, Google Win Suit by Victims of Pulse Shooting

Twitter, Google, and Facebook aren’t liable to the victims of the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., because it wasn’t an act of international terrorism, the Eleventh Circuit said Monday.

The shooter, Omar Mateen, described himself as an “Islamic soldier” and declared his allegiance to The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIS later took credit for the shooting.

The victims claimed that the social media companies aided and abetted international terrorism by facilitating Mateen’s access to radical jihadist and ISIS-sponsored content on their platforms.

The Anti-Terrorism Act defines “international terrorism” as acts that “occur primarily ...