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I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Monday, March 18th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

A high-profile free speech case was argued before the Supreme Court today.

Attorneys presented arguments claiming the Biden administration coerced social

media platforms to remove content they found problematic, but a majority of the justices appeared

skeptical. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta Giacomo has the latest on the case, Murphy versus Missouri.

During today's oral arguments, justices questioned whether government officials' communication with social media platforms broke any laws.

Attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, along with a handful of social media

users, filed a lawsuit alleging that U.S. government officials went too far in pressuring

platforms to moderate contents.

The suit covers efforts made by the government to stop the spread of what they deemed false

information, such as posts about COVID and the presidential election back in 2021.

Justice Katanji Brown Jackson seemed to land on the idea that in some cases

the government can restrict speech.

Whether or not the government can do this depends on the application of our First Amendment

jurisprudence and there may be circumstances in which the government could prohibit certain

speech on the internet or otherwise.

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