WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court on Thursday (Sept 14) temporarily put on hold an order restricting the ability of President Joe Biden's administration to encourage social media companies to remove content it considers misleading, including about the Covid-19 pandemic. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, acting for the court, issued an order freezing a lower court's decision finding that federal officials...
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily put on hold an order restricting the ability of President Joe Biden's administration to encourage social media companies to remove content it considers misleading, including about the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals came in litigation against the administration by the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and a group of social media users. The administration called the decision "startling", saying it would interfere with how the White House, FBI and health officials address matters of public concern and security.
The 5th Circuit had put its order on hold through Sept 18 so the administration could seek the Supreme Court's intervention. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to further stay the order and said it would appeal it by Oct 13. Louisiana-based US District Judge Terry Doughty in July concluded that US officials had coerced Meta Platforms' Facebook, Alphabet's YouTube and X Corp, formerly Twitter, into suppressing posts related to Covid-19 and claims of fraud in the 2020 election won by Biden, a Democrat.
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