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Supreme Court sounds wary of weakening Section 230 to allow lawsuits against internet giants

WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices said Tuesday they were wary of allowing lawsuits against YouTube and other social media firms over algorithms they use to direct users to related content — even if that encourages terrorists or promotes illegal conduct.

Los Angeles Times

Federal judge shuts press out of courtroom at Sayfullo Saipov death penalty trial

NEW YORK — The judge presiding over Sayfullo Saipov’s death penalty trial shut reporters out of the courtroom on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

How a Supreme Court case against Google could upend the internet

The family of a 2015 terror attack victim will try to prove that YouTube’s algorithm aided Islamic State in spreading its propaganda, in a case that could transform the internet.

The Independent UK

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Did YouTube algorithm spur ISIS killing? Supreme Court weighs Google’s liability in terror case over key internet law Section 230

ISIS victim Nehemi Gonzalez’s family says Google-owned YouTube aided and abetted the Islamic State group by recommending its videos to viewers most likely to be interested in them.

Chicago Sun-Times

How two supreme court battles could reshape the rules of the internet

Lawsuits brought by families of terrorist attack victims will consider whether companies are responsible for users’ content

The Guardian - US

High court takes 1st look at law that shields internet firms

The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet

The Independent UK

Supreme Court weighs liability shield for internet giants

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday

The Independent UK

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Supreme Court to hear arguments on social media immunity laws

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week about social media giants Google and Twitter in a pair of cases that could determine whether the justices effectively rewrite one of the central laws underpinning the modern internet before Congress does.

Tribune News Service

US, Kurdish soldiers kill senior Islamic State commander, IS gunmen kill 53 in Syria

US and Kurdish soldiers say they've killed a senior Islamic State group commander in a helicopter raid in north eastern Syria, while separately, 53 were killed in an IS terrorist attack.

ABC News

At least 53 killed Syria attack, Islamic State blamed -state TV

At least 53 civilians were killed in an attack in Syria's central desert province of Homs, state media reported on Friday, blaming jihadist militant group Islamic State.

Reuters

Four U.S. troops wounded in raid that killed Islamic State official

Four U.S. troops were wounded during a helicopter raid that killed an Islamic State group leader in northeast Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Reuters

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Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it

Tribune News Service

Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it

An upcoming Supreme Court case could answer one of the toughest questions of the internet age: Should online companies be held responsible for promoting harmful speech?

Tribune News Service

COVID-19 restrictions unexpectedly reduced Islamic State violence – political science experts explain why

World leaders and policy experts at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic feared that the health crisis might make the world more dangerous. They worried specifically that terrorist organizations like the Islamic State group would capitalize on the pandemic to increase attacks on civilians and recruit new sympathizers.

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Section 230 and the Curse of Politics

Gonzalez v. Google presents the Supreme Court’s first opportunity to weigh in on Section 230.

The Conversation

COVID wasn't a 'bumper campaign' for right-wing extremists. But the threat from terror remains

Violent extremism remains a persistent and resilient threat, constantly adapting and evolving. It is an endlessly demanding problem and we can neither afford to ignore it nor allow it to disproportionately consume our finite resources.

The Independent UK

Taliban forces kill 3 IS members in raid on Kabul building

An official says Taliban intelligence forces killed three Islamic State group militants and arrested one other in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital of Kabul

Wales Online

'Let Shamima Begum back into UK to rebuild her life' says her mother-in-law

Ms Begum is challenging the Government in a bid to have her citizenship reinstated

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Daily Mirror

Shamima Begum's mother-in-law says she should be allowed back to UK

Shamima Begum's mother-in-law insists she and her husband Dutch jihadist husband Yago Riedijk should both face justice for travelling to Syria to join ISIS

Reuters

Canadian government appeals order to repatriate Canadians in Syria

The Canadian government is appealing a January federal court order to repatriate four Canadian men held in Syria on suspected ties to the Islamic State, according to a notice of appeal filed on Friday.

Reuters

Dutch to prosecute woman for Islamic State membership, Yazidi enslavement

Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Friday announced they plan to put a Dutch woman who joined Islamic State on trial for crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015.

Daily Mirror

ISIS jihadi medical student who wants to return to UK says he has 'right to come home'

Ibrahim Ageed was studying medicine in Sudan before he joined the ISIS terror group with his brother back in 2015 - and now he is pleading to return to the UK

Reuters

We fled war to die in an earthquake, says Iraqi woman mourning family in Turkey

Six years ago, Rehab Talal and her family fled the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq seeking shelter in Turkey, but seven members of her family died, including a week-old baby, when her parents' house collapsed in the earthquake.

The Independent UK

US man convicted of aiding Islamic State as sniper, trainer

A former New York stockbroker-turned-Islamic State group militant has been convicted of becoming a sniper and trainer for the extremist group during its brutal reign in Syria and Iraq

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Here’s how to reform the law that made the internet

A Supreme Court case set for oral arguments on Feb. 21 could transform the web as we know it.

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