United States of America: Announced Supreme Court decision to hear Gonzalez v Google regarding platform's liability over displayed terrorist content

On 3 October 2022, the US Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of Gonzalez v Google, thereby agreeing to hear the case in relation to the scope of the immunity for interactive computer services under section 230(1)(c) of the Telecommunications Decency Act. The facts of the case concern the recommendation of recruitment videos for the terrorist organisation ISIS by Google's algorithm. Section 230(1)(c) provides immunity to interactive computer services for the publication of information provided by users. The question put to the Supreme Court is whether this immunity also applies to targeted algorithmic recommendations of information. Previously, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the immunity applied to Google in this case.