Is Fighting Misinformation Censorship? The Supreme Court Will Decide.
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When the baseball star Hank Aaron died in 2021 at the age of 86, people took to social media to remember his legendary career. |
| 0:14.0 | Some posted about his legacy as a civil rights icon. |
| 0:20.0 | Others posted about his incredible swing |
| 0:22.0 | and how he held the career home run record for more than three decades. |
| 0:27.0 | But there was one tweet that caused a firestorm. |
| 0:30.0 | It was |
| 0:35.0 | caused by the COVID vaccine. |
| 0:37.0 | He said, quote, |
| 0:38.0 | Hank Aaron's tragic death |
| 0:40.0 | is part of a wave of suspicious deaths |
| 0:42.0 | among elderly closely following administration |
| 0:44.6 | of COVID vaccines. |
| 0:46.7 | The Biden administration asked Twitter to remove Kennedy's tweet, which the company did. It was one of many posts the government asked social media sites to take down during the pandemic. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, the administration's effort to go after what it saw's misinformation online |
| 1:03.0 | is under the spotlight of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:06.1 | In a case known as Murphy versus Missouri, |
| 1:09.4 | it's one of the biggest tests of the First Amendment in years. |
| 1:24.8 | This is a case about what the plaintiffs call censorship and what the government calls guidance. That's our colleague Jess Braven. |
| 1:26.6 | He covers a Supreme Court and was listening as the justices heard oral arguments earlier |
| 1:30.9 | this week. |
| 1:32.0 | So what would you say is the central question at the heart? oral arguments earlier this week. |
| 1:32.9 | So what would you say is the central question |
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