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TWITTER, INC. v. TAAMNEH
Opinion of the Court
YouTube, 510,000 comments are posted on Facebook, and
347,000 tweets are sent on Twitter. See Statista, Media
Usage in an Internet Minute as of April 2022 (2023),
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195140/new-usergenerated-content-uploaded-by-users-per-minute; Statista,
YouTube–Statistics & Facts; B. Marr, How Much Data Do
We Create Every Day? Forbes, May 21, 2018. On YouTube
alone, users collectively watch more than 1 billion hours of
video every day. See YouTube Advertising, Reach Your
Customers—and Discover New Ones, https://youtube.com/
intl/en_us/ads/how-it-works/set-up-a-campaign/audience.
Defendants profit from this content largely by charging
third parties to advertise on their platforms. Those advertisements are placed on or near the billions of videos, posts,
comments, and tweets uploaded by the platforms’ users. To
organize and present all those advertisements and pieces of
content, defendants have developed “recommendation” algorithms that automatically match advertisements and
content with each user; the algorithms generate those outputs based on a wide range of information about the user,
the advertisement, and the content being viewed. So, for
example, a person who watches cooking shows on YouTube
is more likely to see cooking-based videos and advertisements for cookbooks, whereas someone who likes to watch
professorial lectures might see collegiate debates and advertisements for TED Talks.
But not all of the content on defendants’ platforms is so
benign. As plaintiffs allege, ISIS and its adherents have
used these platforms for years as tools for recruiting, fundraising, and spreading their propaganda. Like many others
around the world, ISIS and its supporters opened accounts
on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and uploaded videos
and messages for others to see. Like most other content on
those platforms, ISIS’ videos and messages were then
matched with other users based on those users’ information
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