Supreme Court weighs Google's liability in ISIS terror case

stake today is we're looking at a law dating back to 1996 section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. And this law, what it really does is it means that tech companies aren't liable for the content that's posted by their users. And that's something that is going to be central to the case today in Gonzalez versus Google. But the focus today in this case isn't necessarily what

users have posted, but the Gonzalez family, the victim in this case was killed by ISIS. And the Gonzalez family is taking aim at the recommendations at the auto play features that YouTube uses. Of course, Google is the YouTube parent company. Now the Gonzalez family are gold argues that Google and YouTube are responsible for allowing ISIS recruitment videos to remain on the platform for offering them in

recommendations and for using them in the auto play feature. Google on the other side, of course, argues that the algorithms behind all of those features are needed to sort through a message. And that's a massive amount of data that is on the internet that's on YouTube and that's on Google platforms. Now this isn't the only section 230 cases Supreme Court is hearing today. There is another

case tomorrow with a different family. That case filed against Twitter. But this is the first time this week that the Supreme Court is considering section 230 cases and looking at this law. Now lower courts in these cases have often sided with the tech companies, which gives them protection from lawsuits like these two that are now made it all the way to the Supreme Court. Now the

decision that the Supreme Court makes could have huge implications on the internet. Algorithms are behind just about everything we do online. Think about web searches, think about social media recommendations, job boards, rolling back the protection that tech companies get from section 230. Could mean the tech companies remove more content out of fear of being sued, but it can also mean the exact opposite. The tech companies

remove no content and just let everything stand on the internet, regardless of how harmful or hateful it could be. So arguments at the court set to start at 10 o'clock this morning, but I call Supreme Court cases. The decision won't come for weeks or months. It can come anytime before the court's term ends this summer. Chris. Yeah, this is a story that could have a huge

impact on the internet. Congressional correspondent Stephanie Liebergen reporting for Stephanie. Thank you.