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An old Twitter statement is coming back to haunt it.

In 2014 Mother Jones wrote that Twitter was deliberately avoiding taking aim at ISIS, quoting a Twitter official saying that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Taamneh attorney Eric Schnipper brought the quote back up today — this time to argue that Twitter should in fact be found liable for supporting terrorists.

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