Social Media
Platform or Publisher?
For example, CNN, CBS, and others adopted this story from social media, which can be accurately described as "fake news." Unless you count occurrences such as a firearm accidentally firing off in the back of a man's truck and a tragic suicide on a school campus outside of school hours as being 'school shootings,' there were absolutely not 18 school shootings in the span of a month. |
Twitter, though not without some allegations of censorship, has stated its policy of “We are not going to remove content based on the fact that it is untrue.” Because of this policy, Twitter has experienced a much easier time when dealing with lawsuits because it has given responsibility to its users, who are free to post content regardless of whether or not it is true. |