“A federal appeals court has ruled the Biden administration violated the First Amendment rights of social media users posting questions about COVID-19, election fraud, and other subjects when it compelled tech companies who owned the platforms to remove or censor the posts.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans late Friday said the White House, the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control, and the FBI cannot “coerce” social media platforms to take down posts the government doesn’t like.
The court ruled that “numerous federal officials coerced social-media platforms into censoring certain social media content, in violation of the First Amendment.”
However, the 74-page opinion also threw out broader language from an order that a Louisiana-based federal judge issued on July 4 that effectively blocked multiple government agencies from contacting platforms such as Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) to urge that content be taken down.”
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