STAT March 18, 2024
WASHINGTON — Most of the Supreme Court’s justices on Monday seemed to question states’ arguments that the Biden administration coerced social media giants to regulate Covid-19 content and thereby violated Americans’ freedom of speech.
The case, Murthy v. Missouri, centers on whether Biden officials overstepped their authority when asking companies like Twitter and Facebook to remove or downgrade content flagged as Covid-19 misinformation, including posts questioning vaccine safety, shutdown measures and the virus’ origins.
Biden’s lawyers argue they were well within their rights to flag misinformation and use the White House’s “bully pulpit” to press social platforms to regulate false or harmful information. The lawyer arguing for plaintiffs, Louisiana Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga, said that amounted to coercion and...
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