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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate with social media platforms, rejecting a challenge made on free speech grounds to how officials encouraged the removal of posts deemed misinformation,
The Supreme Court ruled against a group of conservatives that sued the Biden administration — alleging the White House violated the First Amendment by pressuring Facebook and other tech platforms to remove “disinformation” — saying they failed to show they were harmed by the administration’s efforts.
CNN legal analyst pointed towards a "procedural off-ramp" in Supreme Court ruling in social media ruling against Biden administration.
The Supreme Court threw out claims that the Biden administration unlawfully coerced social media companies into removing contentious content.
Missouri and Louisiana and five users of social media had charged administration officials with violating their free speech rights.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday shot down a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its efforts to urge social media companies to take down alleged misinformation about Covid-19, election fraud and other topics.
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.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.
Stanford University Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reacts to the Supreme Court rejecting a free speech lawsuit against the White House on 'The Story.'
If government agencies notify Meta or X about posts they believe violate their policies, it's not a First Amendment violation as long as the feds don't demand the content's removal.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a decision that could have enormous consequences for the 2024 election, saying the US government can – for now – keep warning social media companies about mis- and disinformation threats it’s seeing online.
The Biden administration scored another victory from the conservative Supreme Court today, as the justices ruled that challengers did not have standing to sue the federal government over its communications with social media companies about misinformation.
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit alleging that Biden administration officials unlawfully pressured social-media platforms to remove content flagged as disinformation, ruling that neither the two states nor five private parties who brought the claim had any right to get their allegations before a judge.
The court by a vote of 6-3 ruled that those challenging the government’s interaction with social media companies lacked legal standing to sue.
The US Supreme Court cleared the Biden administration to communicate freely with social media companies in an election-year ruling that bolsters the government’s ability to seek removal of what officials see as misinformation.
Republican-led states argued that White House communications staffers, the surgeon general, the FBI and the U.S. cybersecurity agency applied pressure on companies to halt the reach of controversial online posts.
The justices said the plaintiffs don’t have standing to allege that government officials engaged in censorship by pressuring online platforms to take down posts.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the White House and federal agencies such as the FBI may continue to urge social media platforms to take down content the government views as misinformation, handing the Biden administration a technical if important election-year victory.
The decision will permit the government to call upon tech companies to remove falsehoods—which could be critical in the run-up to the presidential election in November.
The Supreme Court is poised to curtail the federal government's power to regulate the environment, including President Joe Biden's climate policies.
A Supreme Court ruling in favor of the government's ability to coordinate with social media platforms was panned by The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
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The US Supreme Court threw out claims that the Biden administration unlawfully coerced social media companies into removing contentious content. The court found that plaintiffs—Republican attorneys ge
Louisana and Missouri sued the White House and accused it and social media companies of censoring republican voices under the guise of "combating misinformation." It was a 6-3 decision.
In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration didn’t do anything wrong when asking social media companies to remove posts full of misinformation. Murthy v. Missouri was filed by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general who argued that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by pressuring Meta,
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration's communication with social media companies.
By a vote of 6-3, with the Supreme Court’s new swing voters Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh in the majority, the Court struck down an attempt to block the federal government from working with social media companies to take down dangerous or misleading content.
The Supreme Court threw out a claim that the Biden administration unlawfully coerced social media companies into removing contentious content.
The high court delivered a blow to GOP states' push to block the Biden administration from coordinating with social media companies.
Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett clashed over the Supreme Court's ruling on a social media censorship case on Wednesday.
The decision threw out a conservative challenge to the administration's push to get social media companies to remove posts it considered misinformation.
T he Supreme Court is losing its patience with hyperpartisan lower court judges who are eager to transform goofy political stunts into legitimate constitutional controversies. That’s the overarching message of the court’s 6–3 decision in Murthy v.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a couple of red states and individual far-right actors lacked standing to
In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that Missouri, Louisiana and five social media users lacked the legal standing to challenge whether the Biden administration censored social media posts.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday cast aside claims that the Biden administration has been censoring conservatives by pressing social media sites to take down dangerous misinformation.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a lawsuit that sought to limit how the federal government communicates with social media companies. The case, Murthy v. Missouri, was dismissed in a 6-3 ruling. It focused on misinformation removal requests that officials from the White House and several federal agencies had sent to social media companies.
The decision clears the way for the Biden administration to continue communications with social media companies to flag potentially dangerous content, at a pivotal point before the election when platforms are on extra high alert for misinformation.
The case is among several before the court this term that affect social media companies in the context of free speech.
The court by a vote of 6 to 3 ruled that those challenging the government’s interaction with social media companies lacked legal standing to sue.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday, ruling they had not violated First Amendment free speech rights with
The case is among several before the court this term that affect social media companies in the context of free speech.