Washington, United States—The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led bid to curb government contact with social media companies to moderate their content, a ruling that could bolster official efforts to fight misinformation in a key election year.
“The plaintiffs, without any concrete link between their injuries and the defendants’ conduct, ask us to conduct a review of the years-long communications between dozens of federal officials, across different agencies, with different social-media platforms, about different topics,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority.
“For months, high-ranking government officials placed unrelenting pressure on Facebook to suppress Americans’ free speech,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented along with Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. “While we respectfully disagree with the court’s decision, our investigation has shown the need for legislative reforms… to better protect Americans harmed by the unconstitutional censorship-industrial complex.”
The lower court order applied to the White House and a slew of agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, the Justice Department as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Rather, they are efforts to make platforms aware of the potential public harms that could result from the unvetted spread of falsehoods via their networks.”
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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