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Not really, any more than you or I if we don't respond to a comment anywhere on DP, therefore, agree with that comment, endorse its conclusions, because we sometimes post when we disagree.Yes-- they believe the information is false. They are making that claim when they delete it or make an editorial comment about it.
Which means information they are allowing to be posted, or posted without any sort of comment, they must believe its 'true.'
You started with a false premise - that to leave something up is to endorse it. For Twitter, they'd have to read and hit "approve" a billion or so times a day. They can't and do not do that. I'm sure well over 99.9% of posts never get read by anyone at FB.So what happens when they believe its 'true' is something that somebody else believes is slanderous, defamatory ect etc and so on against him or her?
Well, if its in the NY TIMES or the local newspaper, or a journal of opinion, the law allows that person to sue that publication for damages. Doesn't mean the person would win, or that it would be easy road to travel. Just that the person legally can go to a court and make an argument.
And the NYT is not liable for third party content in their comments sections, but only in the main 'news' areas where every story is affirmatively approved, or written by them. NYT is responsible for content they create or publish on their website, not for what others upload in the comments sections.
I don't agree at all that moderating a website means, e.g., that a Holocaust Museum website has to tolerate neo-Nazis as long as they are polite, or else risk getting sued with no protections.But Sec 230 does not allow that aggrieved person to make an argument in court. Because the theory of the law is that such websites are bulletin board where people are throwing out ideas and the owners.
But if the owners are now going to make a judgement as to the content of their posts received, well then they should not immune from making a bad judgement.