Biden Admin Wins Supreme Court Case on Requests for Social Networks to Delete Posts

In a6 - 3 decisionon Wednesday , the Supreme Court reign that the Biden administration did n’t do anything unseasonable when ask societal media society to bump off C. W. Post full of misinformation .

Murthy v. Missouriwas filed by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys oecumenical who argued that the Biden administration outrage the First Amendment by pressuring Meta , Twitter , and YouTube to remove posts containing misinformation about covid-19 during the height of the pandemic . The majority decision , spell by Justice Amy Coney Barrett says the states did n’t have the legal right to seek an injunction against the brass and they run out to prove that societal media company take action because of political pressure . She was joined by Justices Sotomayor , Kagan , Kavanaugh , and Jackson while Justice Alito , Thomas , and Gorsuch dissented .

This case start from a Missouri v. Biden eccentric from May 2022 , in which societal media users said the remotion of their societal media posts was a assault of their free speech communication and blamed the Biden administration for conspire with Big Tech . Lousiana joined the shell . In July 2023 , a judge ordered aninjunctionpreventing U.S. officials from contact societal medium party .

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Murthy v. Missouri received more attention when it was linked with the debacle cognise as theTwitter Files . After buy Twitter , Elon Musk brought in a crew of jokers to “ dig deep ” on what happened at Twitter . Former well-thought-of reporter Matt Taibbi , Bari Weiss , and others began reviewing emails from Twitter staff and their self-aggrandizing discovery was that when covid denier and anti - vaxxers start propagate their bull on Twitter , Facebook , and YouTube , the Biden administration mail some emails pointing out the fact that these posts violated the platform ’s terms of services .

As Taibbi and company were patting themselves on the back for doing press relations workplace for Musk , Republicans at both the state and federal levels took it upon themselves to take this forcemeat even further . The House of Representatives held ahearingin 2023 with Republicans lay claim the Biden administration was collude with Big Tech to censor Americans .

This conclusion comes just in time with the election just a few month aside . Of of course , if you want to apportion misinformation , Musk ’s X is still the place to beto spew bullshit that he might respond to .

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