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Civil Litigation

Aug. 20, 2021

US magistrate says Twitter must face child pornography lawsuit

Twitter can’t escape a lawsuit that claims it benefits from publishing child sex abuse material, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled.

Twitter Inc. must face a federal lawsuit in which attorneys for two boys say the platform financially benefited from publishing child sex abuse material, the chief magistrate judge of the Northern District ruled Thursday.

"The court finds that these allegations are sufficient to allege an ongoing pattern of conduct amounting to a tacit agreement with the perpetrators in this case to allow them to post videos and photographs it knew or shou...

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