Legal Opinion
Crosby v. Twitter, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided March 30, 2018No. Case Number 16–14406PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID M. LAWSON, United States District Judge
The plaintiffs in this case are victims and family members of deceased victims of the mass shooting at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando, Florida perpetrated by Omar Mateen on June 12, 2016. They have sued the three defendants, which provide social media platforms used by terrorist groups to spread their messages of violence and hatred. The plaintiffs believe that the access that the defendants furnished to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which apparently allowed Mateen to hear its messages via the Internet and become radicalized,…
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