By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the White House, the FBI and top health officials to not
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS -A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the White House, the FBI and top health officials to not"coerce or significantly encourage" social media companies to remove content that the Biden administration considers to be misinformation.
The 5th Circuit agreed with the Republican state attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who had alleged that numerous federal officials coerced social-media platforms into censoring content in violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment's free speech protections. "Social-media platforms’ content-moderation decisions must be theirs and theirs alone," the court wrote.
The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, along with several individuals who say they were censored on social media, had sued Biden administration agencies and officials last year.
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