Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Seeks Damages

It’s hard to believe that Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two unarmed protesters, has found an attorney who is willing to file a defamation suit against Facebook.

Did content available on social media damage the killer’s chances for success later in life?  No doubt.  Colleges have a strange thing about applicants who bring assault weapons to protests and wind up shooting people to death.

Will potential employers take a jaundiced view, for the same reason?  I would think so. I hired hundreds of young people when I ran my marketing agency, but none was a notorious killer, even if he managed to convince a jury that he acted in self-defense.

OK, so will Facebook’s unwillingness to purge their platform of derogatory content prove to be defamation?  Of course not.