townhall.com By Madeline LeesmanÂ
The Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media platforms to censor posts about elections and the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled.
On Friday, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered that the White House, the FBI and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot âcoerceâ social media platforms to remove content they believe is misinformation. Two of the three judges on the panel were nominated by former President George W. Bush and one was nominated by President Donald Trump.
The decision from the panel came after a lower court judge found that the Biden administration illegally coerced big tech companies to censor some of their posts (via NBC News):
The lower-court judge found that U.S. officials illegally coerced Meta Platformsâ Facebook and Alphabetâs YouTube into censoring posts related to Covid and the 2020 election…
