The Court will decide if Florida and Texas Big Tech laws violate the First Amendment in effort to fight leftwing bias in social media companies.
Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether Florida and Texas Big Tech laws violate the First Amendment, teeing up a major constitutional fight over attempts by conservatives and Republicans to fight leftwing bias in social media companies.
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. – Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
For both provisions, the question is whether the First Amendment permits governments to impose those sorts of regulations of speech on private companies.
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