US Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order Curbing Biden Social Media Contacts
(Worthy News) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday maintained a block on restrictions imposed by lower courts on the ability of President Joe Biden’s administration to encourage social media companies to remove content deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID-19.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito temporarily put on hold a preliminary injunction constraining how the White House and certain other federal officials communicate with social media platforms, pending the administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and a group of social media users had sued federal officials, accusing them of unlawfully helping suppress conservative-leaning speech on major social medial platforms, such as Meta’s Facebook, Alphabet’s YouTube, and X, formerly known as Twitter. [ Source: NewsMax (Read More…) ]