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There Is No Help On The Horizon To Protect Businesses From Disinformation, Misinformation

October 28, 2020Media Mention
Forbes

Greenberg Glusker litigation partner, Doug Mirell, sheds some light on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the Forbes article, "There Is No Help On The Horizon To Protect Businesses From Disinformation, Misinformation," published on October 28, 2020.

Excerpt:

Even then, according to Douglas Mirell, a partner at the Greenberg Glusker law firm who has litigated constitutional law, the issue  “…is only addressed indirectly in Section 230 to the extent that it allows platforms to host such content with impunity…”  Twitter, Google, and Facebook cannot be held legally responsible for publishing disinformation and misinformation that is authored by their users, he said. 

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