If you read the article Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants, you can see that a current law that protects online social networks from lawsuits over what is said on those networks by users is being challenged. From that article,
It's high time this nonsense stops. The days of people logging on to online social services to harass and insult other people needs to be made a thing of the past.
My position on this issue is that yes, any entity that sponsors online content involving user speech that can foment violence because that speech is violent and/or hateful in nature should be held legally and socially responsible for any harm done to users on that platform or to anybody else. Now, I'm not talking about users who criticize others or say somebody is guilty of some crime or unethical behavior, and I surely don't favor punishing anybody for holding an unpopular opinion. But the internet should not be fertile ground for those who want to use it to hurt innocent people using obscene language, cursing, insults, name calling and threats of violence. We don't allow that kind of behavior in person, so there's no reason to allow it online. People who use online social networks should have legal recourse against any entity that sponsors those networks that allows those users to be mistreated on those networks.Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California college student, was studying abroad in Paris in November 2015 when she was among the 130 people killed in a coordinated series of terrorist attacks throughout the city.
The next year, her father sued Google and other tech companies. He accused the firms of spreading content that radicalized users into becoming terrorists, and said they were therefore legally responsible for the harm inflicted on Ms. Gonzalez’s family.
It's high time this nonsense stops. The days of people logging on to online social services to harass and insult other people needs to be made a thing of the past.