By a vote of 6-3, with the Supreme Court’s new swing voters Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh in the majority, the Court struck down an attempt to block the federal government from working with social media companies to take down dangerous or misleading content.
The reasoning of the Court’s majority was simple: while the government may have improperly influenced social media companies in 2020 and 2021, there’s no evidence that they’re continuing to do so now. And to get an injunction, you have to show a possibility of future harm, not just bad behavior in the past.
This doesn’t mean the government is off the hook.
