• US supreme court to hear case about government requests to social media companies

    Case to determine if White House violated free speech protections when it asked social networks to remove Covid misinformationThe supreme court will hear oral arguments on Monday in Murthy v Missouri, a case with the potential to radically redefine how the US government interacts with social media companies. The suit is the culmination of years of a Republican-backed legal campaign arguing that efforts by federal agencies and Joe Biden’s White House to reduce misinformation online constitute...

  • The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case

    Outside the Supreme Court, a crowd in shirts reading “Speak your mind, stand your ground” and others hoisting signs with messages like “Fauci lied.”

  • Biden social media case heads to Supreme Court

    The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to []

  • Biden social media case heads to Supreme Court

    The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to

  • Biden administration contact with social media companies at issue in Supreme Court case

    Can the federal government flex its muscle to influence censorship policies at social media firms? If so, how much? What if national security is at risk? And what if some of the censored speech turns out to be accurate? Those were among the questions the Supreme Court weighed as it heard arguments on March 18 […]

  • Supreme Court says public officials can block social media followers in some cases

    The Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials have some flexibility in how they maintain their own social media accounts, even if they use them for government business, and that means they can delete comments and even block users in certain instances.

  • Supreme Court Justices Balk At Red States’ Free Speech Absolutism In Social Media Case

    Even some of the right-wing justices balked Monday when a couple of red states argued against nearly any government intervention in social media content moderation.

  • Elon Musk's Claims 'Many Americans Still Have No Idea' About White House's Social Media Influence As Supreme Court Preps For The Case

    Elon Musk discussed the alleged influence of the White House on social media companies as a key Supreme Court case approaches, highlighting concerns over potential censorship and government coercion in online platforms. read more

  • US supreme court tells lower courts to reconsider two free speech cases

    First amendment cases involving critics who were blocked from posting on public officials’ social media pagesThe US supreme court on Friday threw out a pair of judicial decisions relating to whether public officials can block critics on social media without violating constitutional protections for free speech.The justices vacated rulings by lower courts in two cases – one from California and another from Michigan – involving lawsuits brought under the US constitution’s first amendment by people...

  • Supreme Court weighs in on social media blocking

    Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon}   Technology Technology   The Big Story Supreme Court weighs in on social media blocking In a unanimous decision Friday, the Supreme Court clarified when public officials can block critical constituents from their personal profiles without violating their constitutional protections. © AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin After hearing appeals of

  • Curb media reports only in exceptional cases: Supreme Court

    NEW DELHI: Emphasising protection of journalistic freedom in litigation initiated by entities with "immense economic power", Supreme Court has asked courts to "tread cautiously" while passing restraining orders against media houses, saying it should be done only in "exceptional cases".SC said a court should refrain from passing an ex-parte restraint order against media houses without examining prima facie merits of allegations, reported. "Grant of a pre-trial injunction against publication of an...

  • Supreme Court hears arguments about social media disinformation

    The Supreme Court is considering whether the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by urging social media platforms to remove posts the administration decided were false or misleading.