July 25 (Reuters) - Several social media companies should not be held liable for helping an avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, a divided New York state appeals court ruled on Friday.
Reversing a lower court ruling, the state Appellate Division in Rochester said defendants including Meta Platforms' META.O Facebook and Instagram, Google's GOOGL.O YouTube, and Reddit were entitled to immunity under a federal law that protects online platforms from liability over user content.
The plaintiffs included relatives or representatives of people who died in Peyton Gendron's racially motivated mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets on May 14, 2022, as well as store employees and customers who witnessed it.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chris Reese)
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