Facebook Inc. has knocked out a lawsuit brought by the Federal Agency of News, a Russian company that cried foul after its Facebook account and page were shut down in 2018 in wave of actions by the company meant to address accounts with ties to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California found that Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act shielded Facebook from liability for removing FAN’s content. In Monday’s decision, Koh noted that Section 230 mandates dismissal of non-Constitutional claims when the defendant is the provider of an interactive computer service such as Facebook, the information in question is provided by a third party, and the plaintiff seeks to hold the defendant liable as the publisher of that information.

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