Nunes cannot sue Twitter over accounts posing as his mother and a cow, judge rules

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California cannot sue Twitter over allegedly defamatory remarks made about him by satirical accounts pretending to be his mother and a cow, a judge has ruled

Twitter is immune to Nunes' claims of defamation and negligence, the judge said, because the company is protected by a critical law at the heart of a roiling policy debate in Washington: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.Twitter puts warning on Trump tweet for 'threat of harm' against DC protestersThe court decision offers the most recent example of how the 1996 law has shielded tech companies from litigation.

Read MoreBiden campaign continues to pressure Facebook and Twitter over Trump's false voter fraud claimsBut in a letter Wednesday to lawyers for Nunes and Twitter, Judge John Marshall said the issues in Nunes' lawsuit were"substantially similar" to previous cases in which platforms were absolved of liability under Section 230.

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