Section 230 generally provides immunity for website publishers from third-party content. Publishers (newspapers etc) are accountable (can be sued) for lies, slander etc. Section 230 makes Facebook and Twitter unaccountable. Might be time to review section 230.
Section 230(c)(1) of Communications Decency Act (CDA) 1996. โNo provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.โ This social media loophole permits brainwashing.