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A Novel Tort Duty for Platforms That Intermediately Produce Real World User Interactions
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Jordan Wallace-Wolf
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August 12, 2025
Abstract
This paper addresses one kind of tort duty that is owed by one kind of platform. With respect to the latter, I focus on platforms that aim to bring about “real world” interactions, such as Lyft/Uber, Airbnb, and Tinder/Grindr. With respect to the former, I focus on the duty to protect users from the attacks of other users and/or third parties. Rather than argue that such platforms incur this kind of duty on grounds of current tort doctrine, I argue that a new doctrine is justified according to which the relevant platforms incur a duty to protect against the actions of others by virtue of their distinct nature as intermediators.
Received: 2025-06-05
Accepted: 2025-07-03
Published Online: 2025-08-12
Published in Print: 2025-03-26
© 2025 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
platforms;
intermediaries;
tort liability;
products liability;
ridesharing
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