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The justices don’t exactly love that Twitter hosts terrorist content

Photo: Mario Tama
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images)

Even though justices appeared somewhat sympathetic to elements of Twitter’s legal argument Wednesday, many weren’t thrilled with the company’s decision to allow content from known or suspected terrorists on its platform

“If you know ISIS is using it, you know ISIS is going to be doing bad things, you know ISIS is going to be committing acts of terrorism,” Amy Coney Barrett said Justice Elena Kagan reiterated that statement in her questioning, telling the Twitter lawyer the company is “helping [ISIS] by providing your service to those people, with the explicit knowledge that those people are using it to advance terrorism.”