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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay in Social Media Case

Posted by: Paul Burch on Sep 14, 2023
News Type: U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court today put a temporarily hold on an order restricting the Biden administration to encourage social media companies to remove content it considers misleading, reports Reuters. Justice Samuel Alito, acting for the court, issued an order freezing a lower court's decision finding that federal officials had likely violated the free speech protections by coercing social media platforms into censoring certain posts. Earlier today, the Justice Department asked the justices to stay a decision made Friday by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found federal officials had likely violated the free speech protections by coercing social media platforms into censoring certain posts. The administration argued the appeals court imposed “unprecedented limits” on federal agencies’ ability to address matters of public concern, prevent threats to national security and relay information, calling the court’s findings “startling.”

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