Appeals court rules government likely violated First Amendment in vaccine misinformation campaign

[BeatMan]

A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled several government entities including the White House, the FBI, the Surgeon General and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to moderate their content on misinformation surrounding vaccines.

In a decision issued Friday evening, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said government actors “likely coerced or encouraged” social media companies to moderate their content, affirming a decision by a lower court with respect to the White House, the FBI, the CDC and the Surgeon General. The three judges issuing the decision were all appointed by Republicans.

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...amendment-in-vaccine-misinformation-campaign/

 

[ll74]

Duplicate thread.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Duplicate thread.

Doesn't matter. The OP never comes back to their threads and they rarely invite discussion to go beyond one page if even more than four or five posts. They're all seagull shit drops from aggregated news sites.

 

[jaF0]

The Fifth Flubbs again ....


"WASHINGTON (CN) — The midnight deadline on an emergency application from President Joe Biden came and went at the Supreme Court on Wednesday after an apparent communications error at the Fifth Circuit injected uncertainty into the justices’ role in deciding if the White House should be prohibited from talking to social media companies.

The White House appealed to the justices to block a Fifth Circuit ruling that would have limited the Biden administration’s communications with social platforms. Justice Samuel Alito granted a temporary stay to allow the court to review the matter; however, before the court could act, the Fifth Circuit jumped back into the fray.

“Rather than allowing this Court’s proceedings to play out in the ordinary course, the Fifth Circuit first issued an order purporting to grant panel rehearing, then rescinded that order, recalled its mandate, and granted its own stay pending further proceedings on respondents’ rehearing petition,” U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the court. “Those orders have injected uncertainty into the proceedings during this Court’s active consideration of the case.” "




https://www.courthousenews.com/scot...dia-case-after-appeals-court-rehearing-snafu/


People aren't sure what they did, or why.