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X Corp. must face partially revived US case over sex-trafficking, appeals court rules

( August 1, 2025, 16:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: X Corp. must face negligence and product liability claims based on defective reporting-infrastructure design brought by anonymous plaintiffs on behalf of minors, a US appeals court ruled. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit revived those claims, saying that they are not barred by Section 230 immunity because they do not arise from Twitter’s role as a publisher. However, it did find that Section 230 immunizes the company from plaintiffs’ claim under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act any activity that can be boiled down to deciding whether to exclude material that third parties seek to post online is perforce immune.See attached file. ...

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