SCOTUS Swats Down GOP-Led Fight Against Social Media ‘Censorship’
The Supreme Court dealt a blow Thursday to Republican officials who accused the White House of suppressing posts on social media about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election by asking tech giants to remove disinformation.
Officials in Missouri and Louisiana, along with five social media users, sued in 2022, accusing the federal government of operating a “censorship enterprise” and “coercing” social media companies to nix content not favored by the White House.
But the justices ruled that they simply had no standing to sue.