Twitter Appeals to Ninth Circuit in Child Sex Trafficking Case

Twitter Inc. petitioned the Ninth Circuit in an attempt to overturn part of a district court’s decision allowing two young men to proceed with a claim that the social media giant benefited from sex trafficking involving teenagers.

The plaintiffs, suing under the pseudonyms John Doe No. 1 and John Doe No. 2, alleged they were solicited at 13 for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing pornographic videos that were later viewed on Twitter more than 167,000 times. In August, a federal court in California allowed their claim that Twitter benefited from sex trafficking but dismissed all other claims.

Twitter appealed ...