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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Supreme Court Considers Social Media and Speech Restrictions

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court heard the case of Murthy v. Missouri, which considers whether federal officials can pressure social-media sites to restrict posts they find to be either questionable or 'misinformation.' It could be a First Amendment landmark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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The First Amendment is back at the Supreme Court in what could be a landmark case

0:35.9

about whether government can coerce social media platforms to take down content

0:41.7

that politicians don't like.

0:43.9

Plus, can public officials block comments

0:46.3

they don't like on their personal social media pages.

0:50.4

Supreme Court says no unanimously, at least regarding most such attempts by politicians.

0:57.6

Welcome, I'm Paul Geego with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, and I'm here with my colleagues Kyle Peterson and

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Alicia Finley, both of whom write about the Supreme Court for us and being

1:09.3

journalists, care about the First Amendment as all do, well, at least outside of academia.

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Let's start with today's big case, Murthy versus Missouri,

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which concerns government's efforts to force Facebook and other platforms to

1:24.1

take down posts that criticize the government policies on COVID, things like

1:29.7

vaccine, mandates, masks mandates, and whatnot.

1:33.1

These emails were exposed by the Missouri Attorney General,

1:38.0

Eric Schmidt, who is now a U.S. senator,

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