The Supreme Court stopped a temporary injunction to block the Biden administration’s ongoing conversations about disinformation with social media companies on Oct. 20, 2023.<\/p>\n
This leaves federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control free to attempt to influence\u00a0 social media companies in order to\u00a0 (as the administration says) \u201cmitigate the hazards of online misinformation\u201d by flagging content that violated the social media platforms\u2019 own policies.<\/p>\n
The states of Missouri and Louisiana have contended in Murthy v Missouri<\/a> (aka Missouri v Biden) that the government \u201ccoerced, threatened, and pressured social-media platforms to censor\u201d them, in violation of the First Amendment.\u00a0 US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is named as a defendant in the suit.\u00a0 Evidence of this pressure campaign\u00a0 emerged when the Twitter Files<\/a> were released after Elon Musk purchased Twitter and took over company management on Oct. 27, 2022.\u00a0 CNN published an article about the Twitter Files<\/a> Dec. 2, 2022.<\/p>\n See SCOTUS Blog, Justices Allow Continued Communication<\/a> … The Supreme Court stopped a temporary injunction to block the Biden administration’s ongoing conversations about disinformation with social media companies on Oct. 20, 2023. This leaves federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control free to attempt to influence\u00a0 … Continue reading
\nAlso: FIRE Statement<\/a> on Murthy v Missouri being granted cert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"