Doe Victims Tell 9th Circuit Twitter Isn’t Immune From Sex-Trafficking Claims

(May 9, 2024, 12:35 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — On their second appeal before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, two John Does who were featured in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that was posted and distributed on Twitter contend in an opening appellant brief that their sex-trafficking, child pornography and negligence claims were wrongly dismissed as barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) because their claims were based on Twitter Inc.’s own actions and not on treating the social network operator as the publisher or speaker of the CSAM, which was posted by third parties....