Administration officials were accused in a lawsuit of unlawfully helping suppress conservative-leaning constitutionally protected speech on major social media platforms.
to remove content it deemed misinformation about Covid-19 and other matters of public concern.
Alito’s order pauses the dispute until Sept. 27 at 11:59 p.m. ET. He had previously halted the lower court’sthrough Sept. 22. Alito is the justice designated by the court to act on certain matters arising from a group of states that include Louisiana, where the lawsuit was first filed. Those platforms included Meta’s Facebook, Alphabet’s YouTube and X, formerly called Twitter. Many of the posts expressed opinions that federal officials said constituted misinformation about the pandemic.
Louisiana-based U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in July concluded that government officials had coercively pressured the companies to suppress posts by users that expressed views that were against Covid-19 vaccines, pandemic-related lockdowns intended as public health measures or that questioned the results of the 2020 election in which Biden, a Democrat, defeated Donald Trump, a Republican.
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