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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Court Rules Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Rights Over COVID-19 Content

The Fox News Rundown

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Daily News, News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A federal appeals court last Friday ruled that the White House, the FBI, the CDC and the Surgeon General could have violated the First Amendment rights of people by moderating content regarding the election, COVID-19 and the handling of Hunter Biden's laptop. The ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans says the governmental agencies pressured technology companies to suppress or even remove posts on those topics. The lawsuit was filed by the states of Missouri and Louisiana, a conservative website owner, and four other people who opposed the administrations COVID-19 policy. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Edward Lawrence, White House Correspondent for the FOX Business Network, about the ruling and what it means for free speech. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Steve Ducey. I'm Dana Perino. I'm Tyrus. And this is the Fox News rundown.

0:08.4

Monday, September 11, 2023, I'm Evan Brown to the Biden administration. Stop

0:14.4

upon your free speech online. A US appeals court says it is quite possible they did when they told

0:20.6

Twitter and Facebook which posts to take down and whose account to cancel. This is people

0:26.7

whose possibly rights were being trampled on by the federal government through these social media

0:32.1

companies. This is the Fox News rundown, an evening edition.

0:41.4

Yo, what up, Rowan Kitty here. This Friday, I believe the system has broken.

0:45.8

Witness the insane, true story of the little guy who took on the giants. Wall Street must be

0:52.6

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0:58.1

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1:03.2

hilarious and wildly entertaining. If he's in, I'm in. Don't money. In cinemas Friday.

1:11.4

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is upholding most of a lower court ruling in the case known

1:16.4

as Missouri, the Biden in which the White House is accused of violating the tenants of the first

1:21.9

amendment by working with social media networks, namely the former Twitter and Facebook operated

1:27.5

by meta. Much of this is centered around the online discussions and criticisms of COVID-19

1:34.4

policies of masking shutdown schools and medical treatments ranging from the use of Iver Mectin

1:40.3

to monoclonal antibodies to vaccine safety. There's a series of discoveries that we have heard

1:45.4

about through this where they got what's called the Twitter files and Facebook files that plays

1:51.0

into this to showing a coordinated effort between the administration, the federal government,

1:56.8

asking these social media companies to take down certain posts. Edward Lawrence of Fox Business

2:02.7

Network is covering the story and the reaction from the Biden administration. He joins us now

2:08.2

from the White House. We know in some cases the surgeon general actually asked to take down

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