A lawyer for Twitter told the Supreme Court on Feb. 22 in a closely watched case that the social media company should not be liable merely because some terrorists may have used its services.
The case, Twitter v. Taamneh (court file 21-1496), goes back to the Jan. 1, 2017, terrorist attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, by Abdulkadir Masharipov, an individual affiliated with and trained by ISIS.
Masharipov carried out a massacre, firing 120 rounds into a crowd of 700 people, killing 39 and injuring 69 others. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a brief by a victim’s relatives.
The original lawsuit was started by U.S. relatives of Nawras Alassaf, a Jordanian citizen who was killed in the assault….
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