Some say it does; others, however–like my colleague and new friend Matt Perault, the director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)–say no, it does not! Either way, this is a novel question of law. (By way of background, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the digital “Magna Carta of the Internet” (see here and here), makes it difficult, if not impossible, to sue Internet platforms like Facebook, Instagram, etc. for any content that is posted on those platforms by a third party, such as reader comments on a blog, tweets on Twitter, posts on Facebook, photos on Instagram, or reviews on Yelp. If a Yelp reviewer were to post something defamatory about a business, the owner of the business could sue the reviewer for libel, but thanks to Section 230, he couldn’t sue Yelp.)