Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden administration's contacts with social media companies

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The court determined​ that the users and two states, Louisiana and Missouri, did not have the legal right to seek an injunction against the Biden administration in federal court.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid from a group of social media users and two states to curtail the Biden administration's efforts to pressure social media companies to remove content that officials said was misinformation.The court determined that the users and the states, Louisiana and Missouri, did not have the legal right to seek an injunction against the Biden administration over its contacts with the platforms.

The case was one of several before the justices in its current term that stood at the intersection of social media and the First Amendment's free speech protections.In this dispute, a federal district judge in Louisiana sided with the social media users, finding that White House officials and some federal agencies and their employees violated the First Amendment by coercing or significantly encouraging social media companies' content-moderation decisions.

 

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