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Amy Coney Barrett: “If you have an algorithm do it, is that not speech?”
Coney Barrett asks whether automated decisions are fundamentally different from conventional editorial judgments. Whitaker tries to bring up Twitter v. Taamneh, in which sites said their automation in a particular case (involving terrorism) didn’t present a viewpoint.
Coney Barrett smacks that down, saying whatever happened in that case, it’s clearly not the argument sites are making here. Whitaker won’t let it go and keeps saying they’re “neutral” ways to organize information — but the justice seems skeptical.
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