Supreme Court scrutinizes US government contacts with social media platforms

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday marches back into the battle over social media content moderation in a challenge on free speech grounds to how President Joe Biden’s administration encouraged platforms to remove posts that federal officials deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID-19.

The justices are set to hear arguments in the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s preliminary injunction constraining how White House and certain other federal officials communicate with social media platforms.