{"id":107926,"date":"2025-02-07T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/07\/dissenter-blasts-4th-circuit-majority-decision-upholding-metas-section-230-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:30:06","slug":"dissenter-blasts-4th-circuit-majority-decision-upholding-metas-section-230-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/07\/dissenter-blasts-4th-circuit-majority-decision-upholding-metas-section-230-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissenter Blasts 4th Circuit Majority Decision Upholding Meta’s Section 230 Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Recommending that a user join a group, connect with another user, or attend an event is Facebook’s own speech, for which it can be held liable, even under this Court’s precedent,” Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote in a dissenting opinion. She was arguing for the revival of negligence claims against Meta for promoting hate speech that allegedly fueled a massacre of Black churchgoers in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

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“Recommending that a user join a group, connect with another user, or attend an event is Facebook’s own speech, for which it can be held liable, even under this Court’s precedent,” Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote in a dissenting opinion. She was arguing for the revival of negligence claims against Meta for promoting hate speech that allegedly fueled a massacre of Black churchgoers in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

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“Recommending that a user join a group, connect with another user, or attend an event is Facebook’s own speech, for which it can be held liable, even under this Court’s precedent,” Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote in a dissenting opinion. She was arguing for the revival of negligence claims against Meta for promoting hate speech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/legal-news-vQDlo8.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}