Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on U.S. Role in Social Media Moderation

The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to the administration’s efforts to curb misinformation online — an effort they described as a government “campaign of censorship.”