Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Sue Meta Over Church Shooting

(Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms, turning away an appeal that accused Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of radicalizing a man who killed nine South Carolina churchgoers. The rebuff ends a lawsuit filed by the daughter of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine people murdered by white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015 at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Two lower courts had ...