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The vast majority of people can agree that disinformation about, let's say, the pandemic,

is unhealthy.

The government actually has a duty to protect the citizens of this country.

NPR has this in a major case testing the role of First Amendment and the Internet age.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday hears arguments focused on the federal government's ability

to combat what it sees as false misleading or dangerous information online.

Last September, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the most conservative federal appeals

court in the U.S. issued a broad ruling that barred key government officials from contacts

with social media companies. Among the personnel targeted in the order were officials

of the White House, the Centers for Disease Control Prevention, the Office of the Surgeon General, the FBI, and an important cyber security agency.

The appeals court said that individuals at those agencies likely violated the First Amendment by seeking to coerce social media platforms into moderating or changing their content about COVID-19, foreign interference in elections, and even Hunter Biden's laptop.

Supreme Court has put that ruling on hold while it examines the tricky issues in the case.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are two states, Missouri and in Louisiana, and five individuals, including vaccine opponents,

who either were banned from some internet platforms at the height of COVID-19 or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured on social media sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, and X, formerly known as Twitter, not prominently featured otherwise known as, you know, the algorithm was suppressing.

The Biden administration notes that underestablished First Amendment precedent, the government itself is entitled to express its views and to try to persuade others.

As the government says in its brief, quote, a central dimension of presidential powers,

the use of the office bully pulpit to seek to persuade Americans and American companies

to act in a way that would advance the public interest. Now, first of all, despite what the Biden administration is

claiming, you know, nobody is saying that the government itself can't try to persuade people of

its own position. So if they want to put out a PSA or whatever about the dangers of, quote, unquote,

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