Breaking News: Responding to the case of Gonzalez v. Google

03/03/23 • 18 min

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in cases that raise questions about liability shields afforded to tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In this breaking news episode, Lucinda speaks with Dr. Hany Farid, Senior Advisor to CEP and professor at University of California, Berkley. Hany is CEP's in-house expert when it comes to digital forensics. Together, Lucinda and Hany take a closer look at one of the cases, Gonzalez v. Google, and discuss the Section 230 Liability Shield.
Links

To read the amicus curiae brief, please click here.
To read CEP's latest press release, please click here.
To read the March 2020 study A Longitudinal Analysis Of YouTube’s Promotion Of Conspiracy Videos, co-authored by Dr. Farid and other UC Berkeley researchers, please click here.
To watch a recording of a CEP web event, Algorithmic Amplification of Divisive Content on Tech Platforms, please click here.

To read the amicus curiae brief, please click here.
To read CEP's latest press release, please click here.
To read the March 2020 study A Longitudinal Analysis Of YouTube’s Promotion Of Conspiracy Videos, co-authored by Dr. Farid and other UC Berkeley researchers, please click here.
To watch a recording of a CEP web event, Algorithmic Amplification of Divisive Content on Tech Platforms, please click here.

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