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Supreme Court Sides With White House In Case Challenging Government Efforts To Curb Social Media Disinformation
The Supreme Court sided with the White House in a challenge to the administration’s efforts to curb disinformation on social media. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices rules that two states and five social media users lacked standing to show that First Amendment rights were violated as Biden administration officials called on social media platforms […]
“To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a Government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion. “In fact, the platforms, acting independently, had strengthened their pre-existing content moderation policies before the Government defendants gotinvolved. For instance, Facebook announced an expansion of its COVID–19 misinformation policies in early February 2021, before White House officials began communicating with the platform.
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