From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, June 26th.

For today's podcast, we'll talk about this morning Supreme Court ruling on misinformation on social media and when the government

can ask to have it removed. And we'll preview tomorrow's Biden-Trump debate with an experienced

debate moderator, Errol Lewis, lead political anchor as host of Inside City Hall on Spectrum News,

New York One, seen weeknights at seven in New York City, who also hosts Spectrum's weekly national politics

program special to this election season called The Big Deal with Errol Lewis, Friday nights at

eight, and he's a New York magazine columnist. We were talking about other things when the

Supreme Court ruling came down. Supreme Court allows White House contacts with social media firms. And it says the

Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply limit White House officials and other

federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government

deems problematic. Familiar with this case? A little bit. I'm familiar with the issue for sure.

This was in part an ideologically driven belief by a lot of conservatives that there was censorship

going on, that it was, you know,

a big, scary federal government that was going to force social media platforms to not deviate

from official doctrine on things like vaccines, on things like, you know, sort of COVID and the spread of COVID.

And it's, you know, I guess legitimately there's a short step that could take you into the realm of

prior censorship.

You know, if you think of these social media platforms the way you would, say, a media organization,

if you and your

folks at WNYC got a call from, you know, the Department of Justice saying, hey, we would have a

conversation with you about your coverage of the Supreme Court. We think you are maybe getting

some of it wrong and we want to just have a friendly conversation. It wouldn't necessarily be that

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