Silicon Valley technology took center stage in front of the Supreme Court Tuesday with one question dangling in the air — is YouTube responsible for the death of a 23-year old American exchange student killed in 2015 by Islamic State gunmen in a terrorist attack?
The high court is trying to determine whether YouTube, by promoting content from the Islamic State on its platform, is partly responsible for the tragedy that followed.
If so, it would at least partially overturn something called Section 230, which protects sites like YouTube when it comes to outside content posted on the site.
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