Judge Upholds Ban on Feds Contacting Social Media Companies

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Judge Upholds Ban on Feds Asking Social Media Companies to Take Down Posts

against critiques who claimed its wide-reaching scope was overly broad and lacking in specificity. Doughty said the injunction, which applies to a wide swath of government agencies, includingand Infrastructure Security Agency, is actually “not as broad as it appears.

Those exceptions primarily apply to government communications with tech firms intended to warn the companies of national security threats, criminal activity, and voter suppression. Government agencies and prominent trust and safety experts critical of the ruling argue those carve outs are too limited and could impede moderators’ ability to quickly root out disinformation campaigns and other potentially harmful operations ahead of upcoming elections.“The injunction threatens to chill this wholly lawful conduct, and to place the Judiciary in the untenable position of superintending the Executive Branch’s communications,” JoeThe Justice Department did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.

 

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