The Biden administration argued it sought to combat the spread of disinformation online by flagging potentially harmful content to social media companies, and noted that the Trump administration took many of the same actions at issue in the suit. The challengers highlighted several topics they claimed were censored on social media, including a story about Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic the efficiency of measures to mitigate spread of COVID-19 and the integrity of the 2020 election. They alleged a host of federal agencies and officials coerced social media companies to suppress speech on their platforms in violation of the First Amendment. Missouri, stems from a suit brought by five social media users and the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana.
A fight over free speech and social media The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, D.C., on Oct.
