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Supreme Court says White House may continue requests to tech companies

The Washington Post

By Ann E. Marimow
Updated October 20, 2023 at 6:14 p.m. EDT|Published October 20, 2023 at 4:48 p.m. EDT

The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed the Biden administration to continue its efforts to get social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the government says are misleading.
 
The administration had asked the justices to put on hold a lower-court ruling that found top officials likely violated the First Amendment by improperly pressuring tech companies to take down what they saw as problematic posts about public health and election-related disinformation.