Therefore, if you retweet a libelous statement in the United States, you or the company you work for may be protected from defamation liability based on the wording in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which states that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider”. Simply put, this means you cannot be sued for something you retweet, even if the original tweet is libelous so long as the libelous content was created by a third party.