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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped making a decision on the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media companies to curb content that the platforms deem objectionable.
The Supreme Court on Monday sent back to a lower court a pair of laws from Texas and Florida that seeks to put restrictions on a social media company's ability to moderate content on its own platforms.
The Supreme Court kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social-media platforms regulate content posted by their users, returning the cases to lower courts.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to settle the major constitutional questions raised in a blockbuster dispute over laws approved in Texas and Florida intended to protect conservative viewpoints on social media,
The US Supreme Court is pushing back to lower courts two key cases looking how social media companies moderate content on their platforms and how states respond to that. The rulings return the cases to courts in Texas and Florida,
The Supreme Court sent social-media-moderation cases back to lower courts in Texas and Florida in a victory for tech giants.
The Supreme Court sidestepped a final determination on whether Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas that seek to regulate the content moderation practices of social media companies violate constitutional free speech protections.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it is putting off a ruling for now on whether social media laws adopted by Florida and Texas violate the 1st Amendment. Instead, the justices sent those cases back to lower courts to consider how those laws would apply in specific situations.
The Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on Florida and Texas laws that aimed to restrict how large social media companies moderate user content.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a pair of judicial decisions involving challenges to Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media companies to curb content that the platforms deem objectionable.
The Supreme Court was reviewing the constitutionality of laws regulating social media companies from Texas and Florida.
The Supreme Court sidesteps ruling whether state laws regulating social media companies violate the 1st Amendment, sending the issue back to the lower courts.
The Supreme Court sent back to lower courts Monday two challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating social media platforms, deciding that the judges had to better define the stakes of free-speech issues in the disputes.
The Supreme Court kicked two cases challenging social media moderation laws in Florida and Texas back to lower courts
The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users in a ruling that strongly defended the platforms' free speech rights.
A unanimous ruling sends cases on laws out of Florida and Texas back to lower courts with reminders that content moderation is protected speech.
The justices returned the cases to lower courts in challenges from trade associations for the companies.
The Supreme Court neither ruled for or against social media laws in Florida and Texas that prohibited moderation of politicians.
The US Supreme Court sent a pair of cases related to state social media laws back to lower courts, arguing there is not enough information about how they will be applied to companies like Meta Platforms Inc.
The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at “Silicon Valley censorship,” to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites’ First Amendment rights.
Two state laws from Texas and Florida, that could upend the way social media companies handle content moderation are still up in the air. The Supreme Court sent the challenges back to lower courts, which vacates previous rulings.
The U.S. Supreme Court pushed lower courts to take another look at two laws in Florida and Texas that would have stopped social media companies from removing extremist content or accounts in a decision Monday that’s widely being regarded as reasonable.
The Supreme Court isn’t going to rule on a case that could fundamentally change how we think about the First Amendment as it applies to the internet. But within its indecision came one decision: Social media has at least some First Amendment protections,
The tech industry saw the measured ruling as a win. Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to continue defending for the law.
The Supreme Court on Monday kicked issues around social media content moderation back to lower courts for further review. Texas and Florida have passed legislation that Republican lawmakers have claimed will stop tech companies from quieting conservative opinions.
Net Choice addressed laws passed by Republicans in Florida and Texas that aimed to regulate how social-media companies remove and label user content. Representing Facebook, YouTube, and others, NetChoice argued that such laws violated the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court on Monday punted challenges to Texas and Florida laws that regulated social media content moderation after major platforms were accused of banning users based on their viewpoints. “The judgments are vacated,
Rather than upholding or striking down controversial social media laws in Texas and Florida, the justices sent the NetChoice cases back to the lower courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reignited the legal battle over controversial Florida and Texas laws aimed at placing restrictions on social media platforms, sending the cases back to appeals courts for reconsideration.
The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users in a ruling that strongly defended the platforms' free speech rights.
The justices ruled that the lower courts had failed to conduct a proper analysis of the First Amendment challenges to the laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated conflicting rulings in challenges to Florida and Texas laws aimed at placing restrictions on social media platforms, directing appeals courts to reconsider the decisions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has put Florida and Texas social media laws on hold, sending both cases back to lower cases for more review.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to take another look at a set of content moderation laws in Florida and Texas that were designed to protect conservative speech on social media platforms.
The court ordered more proceedings on laws in Texas and Florida that seek to regulate online platforms’ content-moderation practices.
The Supreme Court ruling keeps Texas and Florida from enforcing, for now, laws limiting how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media
The Supreme Court punted on cases challenging Texas and Florida laws that regulate social media platforms’ content moderation practices. The case raised questions of whether Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube and other platforms were neutral gatekeepers of third party content,
The ruling leaves lower courts’ injunctions against both Florida and Texas’s social media content moderation laws in place. The court avoided the key question of the case: whether the government or the company has the ultimate authority to decide who can and can’t speak on social media apps.
The Supreme Court keeps on hold Florida and Texas laws seeking to limit how social media platforms regulate user content.
The Florida and Texas state laws were passed in 2021 over concerns that conservative views were being suppressed on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
NetChoice, a lobbying group representing and funded by nearly 40 major tech companies, challenged laws in Florida and Texas that punish social media companies for purportedly retaliating against users,
The Supreme Court on Monday wiped lower court rulings regarding two state laws aimed at barring social media companies from banning users based on their political views, kicking the major First Amendment challenge down the road.
The Supreme Court on Monday kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users.
The Supreme Court on Monday kicked back a challenge to laws out of Florida and Texas that curtail content regulation by social media giants back to the lower courts. In its decision for the combined NetChoice v.