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Karen Hepp Wins a Major Victory in Her Battle Against Facebook
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Chris Riley
Sept 24, 2021
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originally published in
Philadelphia Magazine
Facebook had argued that the company was immune from liability thanks to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial and, according to some, very outdated measure that essentially lets companies like Facebook off the hook when a post or a comment by a user on the platform turns out to be problematic. The federal judge in Philadelphia agreed with Facebook.
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