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☆ 5 ways parents can shore up a middle schooler’s self-image
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Phylis Fagell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Editor’s Note: Phyllis L. Fagell, a licensed clinical professional counselor and professional school counselor, is the author of “Middle School Matters.” Her new book is “Middle School Superpowers: Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times.”CNN —After a disappointing routine during a gymnastics meet, Addy Moser was full of self-doubt, so the 13-year-old tried silently encouraging herself using her own first name. It’s not easy for middle schoolers to counteract unrealistic expectations they absorb from peers, family members, the culture and themselves, which is why I devote a chapter in my new book, “Middle School Superpowers: Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times,” to acquiring “super security,” the power to develop a healthy self-identity. The good news is you can help your child acquire super security. Beyond offering unconditional love, which every child needs to feel secure, parents can do practical things to shore up a tween’s self-image. Parents can encourage children who use social media to be mindful about the posts they see and share.

Persons: Phyllis L, ”, Addy Moser, Jason Moser, “, Dad, ‘ Addy, Addy, ’ ” Moser, It’s, Michele Borba, Erlanger Turner, Moser, “ Sally, ” Moser, Devorah Heitner, Heitner, Jennifer Breheny Wallace, ” Wallace, Martin Seligman, Christopher Peterson, don’t, Wallace, ‘, ‘ You’re, ’, Amy Morin, Mary Alvord, ” Alvord, you’re, Robyn Silverman, Silverman, you’ve, I’m, Turner, Borba Organizations: “, Times, ” CNN, Michigan State University, Pepperdine University, Forster, Productions, Via Survey, SDI Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Why are frozen vegetable prices so high? Blame war, fewer immigrants and California weather, say economists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"Some areas were just inundated," which had the effect of decreasing vegetable supply, Tronstad said. Overall, the state accounts for nearly half of U.S. vegetable production, according to California Polytechnic State University. George Rose/Getty ImagesBut weather — and its negative impact on crop supply — isn't the only contributor to higher prices for frozen vegetables. The higher prices give farmers a "strong incentive" to plant these commodity products over others (like vegetables), a dynamic that could decrease vegetable supply, Bodor said. Labor supply pressured by reduced Mexican migrationLong-term immigration trends are also serving to put upward pressure on labor costs for farmers, economists said.

Persons: Tayfun, Tronstad, Pam Knox, George Rose, Alison Bodor, Bodor, Trey Malone, Zach Rutledge, Rutledge, Russell Tronstad Organizations: Anadolu Agency, Getty, State, Central Valley . Citizen, Getty Images, California Department of Food, Agriculture, California Polytechnic State University, University of Georgia, Food, Growers, University of Arkansas, Labor, Michigan State University, University of Arizona U.S, Agricultural Workers Survey, University of California Locations: Lompoc , California, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley ., Getty Images California, brussels, U.S, Ukraine, Sacramento, San Joaquin Rivers, Rio Vista , California, Mexico, Davis

☆ His Sexuality Doesn’t Define Him, but It Can Set Him Apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Zach Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The hateful email was a surprise, but for Eric Bach, it was not entirely unexpected. The young broadcaster had been anticipating something like it for some time. Three years earlier, while he was studying journalism at Michigan State University, he had publicly come out as gay in an essay he wrote for Outsports. He simply showed up to work, pulled his headset over his ears and described the action for the audience at home. More than a year after that incident, that email represents something of a nexus in Bach’s developing career as a sports broadcaster.

Persons: Eric Bach, ” Bach, Bach, ’ ” Organizations: Michigan State University, Outsports, II, Wingate Locations: Lenoir, Rhyne, North Carolina, ”

☆ Scientists are growing seeds in space to help adapt to climate change on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Nadia Leigh-Hewitson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of changing climate conditions and although changes to temperature, rainfall patterns, and frost might extend a growing season or enable the cultivation of different crops, climate change also introduces major challenges for farming. Shoba Sivasankar examines sorghum seeds that spent around five months at the International Space Station . K. Laffan/IAEABy selectively breeding plants grown from the mutated seeds, Sivasankar and her team hope to create new crop strains. The private sector has also taken an interest in the impact of spaceflight on plant seeds. StarLab Oasis plans to grow seeds on external docking platforms at space stations, shown here in a rendering Nanoracks/Starlab OasisSending seeds to space will help “sustainability, climate change, and food security on Earth,” StarLab Oasis’ co-founder Allen Herbert told CNN in 2022.

Persons: Shoba Sivasankar, ”, “, StarLab, Allen Herbert Organizations: CNN, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Agriculture Organization, FAO, International Space, of, Food, Agriculture, Space, Michigan State University, MSU, United Arab Emirates, StarLab Oasis, Oasis Locations: China, Abu Dhabi

[1/2] United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain greets workers at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, to mark the beginning of contract negotiations in Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S. July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File PhotoDETROIT, July 13 (Reuters) - United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain is not a shouter. When he addresses union members in Facebook videos, or appears in public, he rarely raises his voice. "The only real limits we have are the ones we place on ourselves," he told union members in a video address on Tuesday. LONG-TERM TECHNOLOGY THREATSThe UAW president is unsparing in criticism of his immediate predecessors - two of whom, Dennis Williams and Gary Jones, were convicted of corruption.

Persons: Shawn Fain, Rebecca Cook, Fain, I’ve, Malcolm X, Bernie Sanders, Dennis Williams, Gary Jones, “ We’re, Matt Frantzen, “ He’s, Frantzen, Tesla, Peter Berg, Joe White, Ben Klayman, Bianca Flowers, David Shepardson, Matthew Lewis Organizations: United Auto Workers, Sterling Heights Assembly, REUTERS, DETROIT, UAW, Detroit, General Motors, Ford, EV, GM, Teamsters, United Parcel Service, Toyota, Michigan State University, Thomson Locations: Sterling Heights, Sterling Heights , Michigan, U.S, Washington, Belvidere , Illinois, Hollywood, California, Detroit, Chicago

☆ Supreme Court staffer pressured public library to buy more of Sonia Sotomayor's books: '250 books is definitely not enough'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new AP report details how Sonia Sotomayor's book sales intertwine with her service as a Justice. "250 books is definitely not enough," one aide told a public library in Oregon. The report found that taxpayer-funded staff at the Supreme Court have often pressured public institutions, including colleges and libraries, to purchase more of Sotomayor's books for events around the country where the liberal justice has been invited to speak. But because Supreme Court has no formal code of ethics, such practices are legal. While Republicans have generally defended these arrangements, Democrats have seized on the revelations to call for instituting a formal code of ethics at the Supreme Court.

Persons: Sonia Sotomayor's, Sonia Sotomayor isn't, — she's, Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito's Organizations: Justice, Taxpayer, Service, Associated Press, Clemson University and Michigan State University, AP, Republicans, Supreme Locations: Oregon, Wall, Silicon

☆ Larry Nassar, the ex-USA Gymnastics doctor who sexually abused girls for decades, was stabbed 10 times in prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Shawn Nottingham Hannah Rabinowitz Holly Yan | Shawn Nottingham | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing young athletes under the guise of medical treatment, was assaulted inside a federal prison in Florida, according to two sources familiar with the incident. Joe Rojas, president of the local correction officers’ union, told CNN Nassar was stabbed a total of 10 times – twice in the neck, twice in the back, and six times in the chest. Rojas says Nassar is in stable condition. In 2021, victims of Nassar reached a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic Committee and their insurers. The settlement was part of the USA Gymnastics plan to exit bankruptcy as the organization has struggled to recover from the Nassar scandal.

Persons: Larry Nassar, Joe Rojas, CNN Nassar, –, Rojas, Nassar, “, Coleman Organizations: CNN, USA, of Prisons, United States, Staff, Medical Services, Michigan State University, US Olympic, US Olympic Committee, Associated Press Locations: Florida, Sumterville , Florida, Michigan, Ingham County

☆ Nassar, disgraced doctor who abused US gymnasts, is stabbed in prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

July 10 (Reuters) - Larry Nassar, the disgraced doctor of USA Gymnastics who was convicted of sexually abusing young female gymnasts, has been stabbed multiple times by another inmate in prison and was in stable condition on Monday, U.S. media reported. Since the Nassar scandal, USA Gymnastics has overhauled its leadership and filed for bankruptcy, saying at the time it was staggering under the weight of lawsuits filed by hundreds of women who were sexually abused by the former team doctor. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee reached a $380 million settlement. In September 2021, Biles and Maroney were among the high profile Olympic gymnasts who gave heart-wrenching testimony before a U.S. Senate panel about the sexual abuse they endured for years under Nassar's care. At that hearing, the gymnasts blasted the FBI for its mishandling of the investigation, with Biles accusing the bureau of turning a blind eye to all of Nassar's victims.

Persons: Larry Nassar, Penitentiary Coleman, Benjamin O'Cone, O'Cone, Nassar, Joe Rojas, Rebecca Cook, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, unflinchingly, General Michael Horowitz, Biles, Maroney, Rami Ayyub, Frank Pingue, Doina Chiacu, Alistair Bell Organizations: USA Gymnastics, Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S, Penitentiary, FBI, CNN, Associated Press, USA, REUTERS, Michigan State University, Olympic, Paralympic, Senate, Biles, Thomson Locations: Florida, Eaton, Charlotte , Michigan, U.S

☆ July supermoon: When and how to see the buck moon
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Amaya Mcdonald | Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

This month’s moon is also known as the buck moon. Names like hot moon refer to summer weather while terms like raspberry moon and ripe corn moon signify the best times for harvesting fruit and other crops. There will be two supermoons in August, including a blue moon, which will be the closest moon to Earth this year, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Here are the full moons remaining in 2023, according to the Farmer’s Almanac:● August 1: Sturgeon moon● August 30: Blue moon● September 29: Harvest moon● October 28: Hunter’s moon● November 27: Beaver moon● December 26: Cold moonLunar and solar eclipsesPeople across North, Central and South America will be able to see an annular solar eclipse on October 14. Only part of the moon will pass into shadow as the sun, Earth and moon will not completely align.

Persons: ”, Shannon Schmoll, it’s, Schmoll, Isaiah J, Downing, Alpha Capricornids, Perseids, Orionids, Leonids, Geminids, Ursids Organizations: CNN, Michigan State University, “, Western Washington University ., USA, Sports, Meteor, Aquariids, Alpha Locations: North, Central, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South Africa

☆ First ever video captures the adorable birth of critically endangered Burmese peacock softshell turtle hatchlings
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Staff at a conservation group captured the birth of 15 Burmese peacock softshell turtle hatchlings. Nyein Chan & Yae Aung / Fauna & FloraAs a result, Burmese peacock softshell turtles are one of the world's most endangered freshwater turtle species. An adult Burmese peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia formosa) being released in Indawgyi. "Working with local communities will be key to our success in addressing the threats to the critically endangered Burmese peacock softshell turtle. We are already seeing the results of collaborating with communities to manage and protect key nesting sites and habitat," said Zau Lunn, Programme Manager, Freshwater and Marine, Fauna & Flora.

Persons: —, Nyein Chan, Jeremy Holden, Fredric Janzen, Flora, Zau Lunn, Lunn Organizations: Service, Zoological Society, London's, Local, Flora International, Fauna & Flora International, & Flora, New York Times, Michigan State University, Fauna, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Locations: Myanmar, East, Southeast Asia, Indawgyi, formosa

☆ Opinion | Creating a Path for More Black Economists
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“If this is what economics is teaching, who wants to be part of that?”Myers is an interesting person. Myers told me about the economists, both Black and white, who lent a hand to him and others early on. One was his father, Samuel L. Myers, a path breaker who earned a doctorate in economics from Harvard in 1949. “I’m happy and content that I’m unapologetically Black,” he said. He added: “The summer program is producing deep thinkers.”

Persons: “, I’m, ”, ” Myers, Roy Wilkins, Wilkins, Myers, Samuel L, Marcus Alexis, Andrew Brimmer, Clifton Wharton, Phyllis Wallace, Bernard Anderson, Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Michael Piore, Richard Eckaus, Duncan Foley, Charles Kindleberger, Kindleberger “, Kindleberger, they’re Organizations: Morgan State University, Harvard, Caucus of Black, Federal, Michigan State University, Rockefeller Foundation, Yale, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T Locations: Baltimore, Minnesota, American

☆ Gen-Z is taking courses on how to send an email and what to wear in the office, according to a WSJ report
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some companies and colleges are offering new grads training on how to work in person, WSJ reported. The courses can cover everything from office chitchat to work attire and meal-time etiquette. Some experts say Gen-Z is lacking in soft skills due to virtual classes and remote internships. Some companies and universities have already begun offering training to help Generation-Z employees adapt to the office, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Since, the company has begun requiring its workers to come into the office for at least three days a week.

Persons: chitchat, Sandy Torchia, PwC, Proviti, Scott Redfearn, Marla McGraw, Spokespeople, Helen Hughes, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Wall Street, KPMG, Journal, Deloitte, Financial Times, Millennials, Michigan State, Proviti, MSU, Miami University, Leeds University Business School, BBC

☆ Gen Z is lost on what to wear to work, and TikTok creators have stepped in to provide office style inspiration
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

As more companies return to the office, Gen Z and new graduates are in need of style inspiration. While some schools offer resources on transitioning to in-person work, many turn to TikTok for help. Cue content creators sharing style tips on how to become a "corporate baddie" after getting used to taking Zoom calls in sweatpants. Young employees are still figuring out what style choices are OK in an office, and which ones are best saved for weekends. Now, most Gen Z professionals are going to their preferred search engine to avoid an uncomfortable email from HR.

Persons: Gen Z, —, TikTok's, officeoutfit, there's, TikTok Organizations: Service, Michigan State University, Street Journal Locations: sweatpants, New York City

☆ Major incidents of gun violence in the US in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Cheney OrrMay 31 (Reuters) - U.S. health and advocacy groups have declared June 2 as National Gun Violence Awareness Day. According to the Gun Violence Archive, as of May 31 over 17,000 people in the U.S. had died in 2023 as a result of guns, including by suicide. Jan. 23 - Just two days later, seven farm workers were shot dead, again in California, in Half Moon Bay. April 18 - Four people were found shot dead in rural Maine and three motorists were wounded by gunfire in what police said were related incidents. May 6 - A gunman shot dead eight people, including children, in a shopping mall in Allen, Texas after opening fire with an AR-15 style rifle.

Persons: Cheney Orr, Hadiya Pendleton, Jan, Rosalba O'Brien, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Covenant School, REUTERS, Michigan State University, Police, Thomson Locations: Nashville , Tennessee, U.S, Chicago, Utah, Goshen , California, Monterey Park , California, California, Mississippi, Orlando , Florida, Louisville , Kentucky, Dadeville , Alabama, Maine, Cleveland , Texas, Allen , Texas, Farmington , New Mexico

☆ Wind energy has a massive waste problem. New technologies may be a step closer to solving it
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It’s a problem that’s vexed the wind energy industry and provided fodder for those who seek to discredit wind power. But in February, Danish wind company Vestas said it had cracked the problem. It announced a “breakthrough solution” that would allow wind turbine blades to be recycled without needing to change their design or materials. Wind energy has been growing at a fast pace. It is the world’s leading renewable energy technology behind hydropower, and plays a vital role in helping countries move away from fossil fuel energy, which pumps out planet-heating pollution.

☆ An influencer posted a promotion for Biore that talked about surviving a mass shooting. People were horrified.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bioré and an influencer faced backlash for a sponsored video that mentioned a school shooting. In the video, the influencer Cecilee Max-Brown talked about coping with anxiety after she survived the shooting. Critics said the brand's video, which was part of a mental health awareness campaign, trivialized school shootings. From a school shooting, to having no idea what life is going to look like after college. A Bioré spokesperson told Insider that the brand's intention wasn't to imply Bioré products would help with mental health.

☆ Bioré and Influencer Apologize After School Shooting Ad
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The skin care brand Bioré apologized this week after facing criticisms that a paid social media post advertising its products at once trivialized and exploited the issue of gun violence in America. An influencer and graduate of Michigan State University, Cecilee Max-Brown, had posted a TikTok sponsored by Bioré in which she talked about how a shooting on campus in February affected her mental health along with stressors like her post-college career, narrating over videos that show her alternating between exercising, resting and using skin care products. The video was quickly taken down on Friday, less than 24 hours after it was posted, after social media users said it was insensitive and remarked on the startling contrast between the video’s upbeat nature and focus on skin care, and the tragedy it touched on. Ms. Max-Brown said the Michigan State shooting in February had caused her to have anxiety attacks and filled her with “terror” on campus. Three students were killed in the shooting and five others were wounded.

☆ Opinion | Justice Delayed
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Lisa Belkin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“We investigated this thing upside down,” said Jerry Hill, a retired state attorney, in a “Bone Valley” interview with Mr. King’s co-host, Kelsey Decker, minutes after the board denied parole to Mr. Schofield in 2020. And so it went in the Adams and Schofield cases, as the prosecutors all but physically barred the jailhouse door. There was no expression of regret from the prosecutors who convicted Randall Dale Adams in Dallas. (Mr. Lindsey himself spent three years on death row before the Florida Supreme Court concluded the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction. He is one of 30 death row inmates in Florida to be exonerated since 1972, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.)

☆ Jo Muse, Advertising ‘Provocateur’ and Pioneer, Dies at 72
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( James R. Hagerty | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jo Muse co-founded a multicultural ad agency that served clients including Honda and Nike. Photo: Muse FamilyAs an advertising major at Michigan State University, Jo Muse was assigned to create an ad for a fictitious water-purification firm. Mr. Muse’s ad showed him urinating into a lake. Though the professor was unimpressed, classmates cheered. “It was clear to me then that being provocative sells,” Mr. Muse wrote in an unfinished memoir.

☆ Ongoing supply shortages threaten U.S. infrastructure and war efforts
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Lisa Baertlein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"One of the big issues as we're trying to ramp up the military industrial base is having enough electronic components," Miller said. Companies that make war weapons like shoulder-fired Javelin and Stinger missiles are awaiting U.S. funding before starting new production for Ukraine. "Any general shortage in semiconductors will affect defense," said Brad Martin, director of Rand Corp's National Security Supply Chain Institute. On the other hand, ongoing demand for auto and farm equipment has kept stocks of microchips that act as electronic brains in that machinery tight. "As we've moved through the past year or so, we have seen gradual improvement in our supply chain, including semiconductors ... Short-term disruptions will continue to happen," GM spokesman Dan Flores told Reuters in an email.

The supply chain woes that sent costs soaring and spurred shortages of everything from toilet paper to passenger cars are easing for retail-focused industries, but remain stubbornly persistent in important growth sectors like autos, machinery, defense and non-residential construction, experts said. "One of the big issues as we're trying to ramp up the military industrial base is having enough electronic components," Miller said. Companies that make war weapons like shoulder-fired Javelin and Stinger missiles are awaiting U.S. funding before starting new production for Ukraine. "Any general shortage in semiconductors will affect defense," said Brad Martin, director of Rand Corp's National Security Supply Chain Institute. "As we've moved through the past year or so, we have seen gradual improvement in our supply chain, including semiconductors ... Short-term disruptions will continue to happen," GM spokesman Dan Flores told Reuters in an email.

☆ 'Trauma entrepreneurs' are accused of using tragedy to make a profit – here's how after a recent college shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In the aftermath of the shooting, the MSU community joined together to support. "Unscrupulous businesses" are accused of selling unlicensed MSU items possibly under the guise of donating proceeds. "They were NOT wearing this sweatshirt design. According to the Detroit Free Press, the original sweatshirt design was that of MSU donor recognition coordinator Andersen Herminia Boyer, who made sweatshirts for herself and other members of her alumni group. "Unscrupulous businesses and individuals have engaged in selling unlicensed apparel and other merchandise.

☆ Michigan Attorney General Nessel says she and other Jewish officials were targeted for murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

EAST LANSING, MI - OCTOBER 16: U.S. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks at a campaign rally held by U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) designed to get Michigan State University students, faculty and staff out to the polls on October 16, 2022 in East Lansing, Michigan. The race between Congresswoman Slotkin and Michigan State Senator Tom Barrett for Michigan's newly configured 7th Congressional District is one of the two most expensive U.S. House campaigns in the country. In her tweet, Nessel wrote: "The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter." "Probable cause exists that [Carpenter] made threats to cause injury and death to Jewish members of the Michigan government," an FBI agent wrote in a complaint against Carpenter. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday that the FBI told her that she was among the group of Jewish state elected officials targeted for murder by a "heavily armed defendant" who has been arrested.

☆ A college apologized for using ChatGPT to write an email to students about the Michigan State University shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Peabody College at Vanderbilt University apologized for using ChatGPT to write a sensitive email. The message asked students to "come together" following a shooting at Michigan State University. In a follow-up email, cited by student newspaper The Vanderbilt Hustler, an associate dean at Peabody apologized for "poor judgement." Laith Kayat, a senior at Vanderbilt University whose sister attends Michigan State University, told The Vanderbilt Hustler: "There is a sick and twisted irony to making a computer write your message about community and togetherness because you can't be bothered to reflect on it yourself." Peabody College and Vanderbilt University did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 frees platforms from legal responsibility for content posted online by their users. In a major case to be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, the nine justices will address the scope of Section 230 for the first time. A ruling against the company could create a "litigation minefield," Google told the justices in a brief. Some have targeted the way platforms monetize content, place advertisements or moderate content by removing or not removing certain material. A California appeals court dismissed the lawsuit, citing Section 230, because it sought to hold Twitter liable for content Murphy created.

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