The Supreme Court on Thursday left untouched a sweeping immunity law for internet companies known as Section 230 and sided with social media companies in cases that grappled with liability for content on their platforms.
Legal experts had said the two cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, could result in the justices effectively rewriting one of the central laws underpinning the modern internet before Congress does.
But the Supreme Court took a more restrained approach, and the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups that weighed in on the cases said the decisions avoided curtailing free speech online.
