Supreme Court to Weigh If Biden Admin Illegally Pressured Social Media to Censor Content

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two landmark freedom of speech cases this morning.

First, SCOTUS will hear arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, which alleges that Biden administration officials engaged in what amounts to government-led censorship-by-proxy by pressuring social media companies to take down posts or suspend accounts over content officials deemed as false or misleading.

Specifically, these allegedly censored posts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lab leak theory, the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, the 2020 election, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and other topics that were marked as disinformation or misinformation, according to plaintiffs.

The case is brought by the Republican attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana, and five social media users. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey previously told The Epoch Times that this amounted to “a vast censorship enterprise” that operates amid “a dystopian scenario, Orwellian in nature.”


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