Sat Aug 12, 2023 – 10:34 am EDT
(Reclaim the Net) — In what may come as a hard blow to the Biden administration, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday expressed doubt over the Democrats’ relentless attempts to reverse an order that significantly hampers their demand to social media behemoths for censoring content they label as “misinformation.”
This comes following a lawsuit brought forward by the states of Louisiana and Missouri.
The lawsuit alleges inappropriate use of power by U.S. officials in pressuring Big Tech companies like Meta Platforms’ Facebook, Alphabet’s YouTube, and X Corp’s Twitter to censor posts regarding COVID-19, the 2020 election, and other topics.
While Daniel Tenny, a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer, in his defense, presented that the government merely “informed” these companies about misinformation-spreading posts but never coerced them into taking them down, the court seems to take a different view.
Highlighting the unsettling intimacy between the government and Big Tech, Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod viewed the irate communication from officials to social media firms for not swiftly removing specific posts as an employer-employee power hierarchy. The sentiment was echoed by Circuit Judge Don Willett, who argued that the
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors