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SCOTUS Rules That US Government Can Continue Talking to Social Media Companies

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Today, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the plaintiffs did not present enough evidence to prove that they had standing to sue over claims that the government violated the First Amendment by communicating with social media companies about misleading and harmful content on their platforms.

The case was brought by the attorneys general from Louisiana and Missouri, who alleged that government agencies have had undue influence on the content moderation practices of platforms and coerced them into taking down conservative-leaning content, infringing on the First Amendment rights of their citizens. Specifically, the case alleged that government agencies like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) coerced social media companies into removing content, including posts that questions the use of masks in preventing Covid-19 and the validity of the 2020 election.

In a May 2022 statement, Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt alleged that members of the Biden administration “colluded with social media companies like Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to remove truthful information related to the lab-leak theory, the efficacy of masks, election integrity, and more.” Last year, a federal judge issued an injunction that barred the government from communicating with social media platforms.

Today, the court said that the plaintiffs could not prove that communications between the Biden administration and social media companies resulted in “direct censorship injuries.” In the majority opinion for Murthy v. Missouri, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that, “the evidence indicates that the platforms had independent incentives to moderate content and often exercised their own judgment.”

While it is the government’s responsibility to make sure that it interacts with platforms in ways that don’t violate free speech—or what’s known as “jawboning”—Kate Ruane, director of the free expression project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, says that there are very valid reasons why government agencies might need to communicate with platforms.

“Communication between the government, social media platforms and government entities, is critical in providing information that social media companies can use to ensure social media users have authoritative information about where you’re supposed to go to vote, or what to do in an emergency, or like all of those things,” she says. “It is very useful for the government to have partnerships with social media to get that accurate information out there.”

David Greene, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that the court’s decision earlier this cycle on a case called Vullo v. National Rifle Association was likely a clear indicator for how it would approach the Murthy decision. In the Vullo case, the NRA alleged that New York Department of Financial Services Maria Vullo pressured banks and insurance companies not to do business with the NRA, and suppressed the organization’s advocacy. In a 9-0 decision, the court ruled that the NRA had presented enough evidence that a case against Vullo could move forward. In Murthy, however, the justices found that the plaintiffs had not presented enough evidence to show that the government had pressured platforms into making content moderation decisions.

“Other than that the facts involved are sort of politically motivated, the legal issue itself is not something that I think traditionally breaks down along partisan lines,” says Greene.

But Greene says that without clear guidelines, state, local, and federal government bodies—of all political leanings—could feel freer to contact platforms now. “We will see a lot more of that type of government involvement in these processes,” he says.



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