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Supreme Court Strikes Down Republican Challenge to Biden Administration’s Efforts Urging Social Media Platforms to Remove Disinformation


The Supreme Court ruled that conservatives who sued over the White House's efforts to curb "disinformation" on social platforms had no standing.

“The plaintiffs fail, by and large, to link their past social-media restrictions and the defendants’ communications with the platforms,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the opinion for the majority. Last year, Louisiana federal district court Judge Terry A. Doughty issued an initial ruling barring administration officials from communicating with social-media platforms. Circuit Court of Appeals scaled back the injunction last fall, narrowing its scope to agencies and individuals it said had likely violated the First Amendment, including the White House, U.S.

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