The Supreme Court heard a free speech case involving the Biden administration's efforts to pressure social media companies to remove what it said was false information.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case that tests how far the federal government can go in pressuring social media companies to remove content it believes spreads misinformation before it crosses a constitutional line.The case, known as Murthy v. Missouri, arose out of efforts during the early months of the Biden administration to push social media platforms to take down posts that officials said spread falsehoods about the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.
'Influence is also the natural result of successful efforts to inform, to persuade, or to criticize,' Prelogar wrote. 'That the platforms often acted in response to the government's communications thus does not remotely show that those communications were coercive.'But state officials behind the challenge told the court that accepting the Justice Department's argument would make the First Amendment 'the easiest right to violate.
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