Anti-Terrorism Act

NEW ORLEANS — In a case brought against Twitter, Google and Facebook by a Dallas police officer who was injured in a mass shooting against police officers in 2016, the Fifth Circuit ruled that internet services and social media providers cannot be held secondarily liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act for aiding and abetting a foreign terrorist group based on acts committed by a single person in the United States. 

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