Supreme Court skeptical of laws to regulate social media companies
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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The Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday of controversial laws to regulate social media companies. USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, February 27th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.7 | excerpt. Today, a peek at the Supreme Court's view in a case that could have major |
| 0:26.0 | implications for social media, plus what a Palestinian resignation might mean for |
| 0:31.0 | the future of Gaza and how several debates in Congress could affect your wallet. |
| 0:36.0 | The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in one of the most closely watched cases of the year, |
| 0:41.0 | one that could change the way millions of Americans |
| 0:44.0 | interact with social media during an election year. I spoke with USA Today |
| 0:48.2 | Supreme Court correspondent Maureen Kropi to learn more. |
| 0:51.3 | Maureen thanks for making some time today. |
| 0:54.0 | Happy to do it. |
| 0:55.0 | So let's get to what's at issue in this social media, free speech battle around these |
| 0:58.9 | Texas and Florida laws. |
| 1:01.8 | What of the states argue here and what are the trade groups |
| 1:04.3 | representing the social media companies argue? Texas and Florida passed laws in |
| 1:09.1 | 2021 because they thought that social media companies have been too quick to throttle |
| 1:14.0 | conservative viewpoints. So their laws limit the ability of the social media |
| 1:18.7 | giants like Facebook and YouTube and X to moderate their content. |
| 1:23.4 | The trade groups representing the social media companies say that these laws would |
| 1:27.2 | infringe on their First Amendment rights of free speech and they back this up by pointing to a 1974 decision from the Supreme Court about a Florida law which the court struck down saying Florida could not require a newspaper to publish replies to editorials. And the social media companies say that on |
| 1:46.3 | their sites they're making editorial judgments when they curate their sites similar to the kinds that |
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