At least it is in Brazil, where that country's Supreme Court ruled recently that social media companies are legally liable for user posts if they don't take them down, even if they don't have a court order.
In other words? Facebook IS a publisher. Just like at newspapers I run.
I've argued in this space and elsewhere more than once with blanket defenders of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I have said that it needs to be updated, not junked, but they still don't accept that, nor the media principle behind it.
Oh, and related to that? Zuckerberg aka Hucksterman will surely try to gut or end-run this ruling, based on his past US history on broadly similar issues.
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