Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a second major case on social media and will decide whether the Biden White House violated the 1st Amendment when it urged platforms to take down "misinformation and disinformation" about COVID-19.

Three conservatives dissented and said the court should have kept in place a judge's order that barred administration officials from contacting social media sites.

"Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch wrote, calling the court's move to rule on the issue "highly disturbing."

The justices now have before them two contrasting views of how the 1st Amendment's right to free speech applies to social media, both of which were endorsed by conservative judges from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. MORE