Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Friday, July 7th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Today on the show,

Green Energy helps key Texas electricity cost low. Plus, what next week's NATO summit can mean

for the war in Ukraine. But first, the politics of social media. Our weekly state of play is our one

big thing. This week, a federal judge temporarily restricted the Biden administration's communication

with social media platforms. The ruling is a response to a lawsuit filed by the Republican

Attorney's General of Missouri and Louisiana, alleging the administration pushed social media

companies to censor Americans' freedom of speech. For our Friday state of play, Axios'

Sarah Fisher is here with the big picture. Sarah, first, what do we need to know about this

ruling in terms of what exactly it prohibits or stops Biden officials from doing? Basically,

it's saying that Biden administration officials shouldn't be communicating with social media platforms.

And the reason that they're arguing that is because there have been instances in the past few

years, if you think about the pandemic, if you think about elections, where officials from the

government have had to work with tech platforms to ensure that things like voter fraud, misinformation

weren't proliferating. The data that tech platforms are going to rely on is not necessarily going

to just come from their own research and monitoring. They're going to work with the government

to see if they're finding anything suspicious, and then they could limit it on their platform.

So I think that what this ruling is trying to say is that the government has overstepped its

balance and its requests for what social media platforms don't or do elevate. But the challenge

here, Nyla, is if you go to broad, you could potentially limit communications for critical

oversight. So the preliminary injunction was considered a victory for the GOP.

What does this tell us about Republicans greatest fears about social media?

I mean, they've been saying for months that they think that the government has been colluding

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