Twitter Sued For Giving Voice To Islamic State (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader writes: An American woman named Tamara Fields has sued Twitter in U.S. federal court, saying the social network gave the Islamic State a voice to spread its propaganda. Fields's husband died on November 9, when the terrorist organization attacked a police training center in Amman, Jordan. The complaint alleges, "Without Twitter, the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most-feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible." At the end of 2015, Twitter stepped up its efforts (or at least its official policies) to block such content from its site. But the company has been under fire for over a year from citizens and law enforcement officials over the activity of various terrorist groups on its platform. Fields's attorneys hope that her husband's death will give her proper standing to challenge Twitter in court.

Comments

The enemy of my enemy

[Anonymous Coward]

Suing an online commentary platform for allowing comments is ridiculous. However, anything that damages social media is welcome as far as I'm concerned.

It will be a glorious day when Twitter and the rest of its ilk disappear into history just like myspace.

Re:The enemy of my enemy

[GrumpySteen]

One of these is true:

1) Twitter employees read every one of the 500 million tweets per day that get posted and agree with the content of them all.

2) You're making accusations despite having both a complete lack of evidence and a complete lack of understanding of the subject.

Re:Fueled by recent change to Twitters TOS

[msobkow]

No, this is in the US. It is fueled by one thing and one thing only: GREED.

Re:Fueled by recent change to Twitters TOS

[PopeRatzo]

Sure, there is no greed outside US, everybody knows that.

There's greed everywhere. We just do it better than everybody else.