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Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business

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Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business

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The wrongful death lawsuit against several social media companies for allegedly contributing to the radicalization of a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, will be allowed to proceed.

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I don’t understand how a social media company can face liability in this circumstance but a weapons manufacturer doesn’t.
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  Or individuals who repeatedly spreading the specific hateful ideology that radicalize people and also encourages them to act on it

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