A federal court of appeals ruled that the White House violated the First Amendment by using social media to suppress Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
A New Orleans-based three-panel judge found that the federal government coerced social media companies to suppress certain viewpoints on the pandemic.
“The government had a vast censorship enterprise,” Bhattacharya said. “It was systematically used to threaten and coerce and jawbone and tell all these social media companies, ‘You better listen to us: Censor these people, censor these ideas, or else.’” Reporting from the Twitter Files — internal Twitter documents and communications released by Elon Musk after he acquired the social media site — revealed that Bhattachrya’s profile was suppressed on the platform.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty found in his July 4 ruling that the Biden administration “engaged in a years-long pressure campaign [on social media outlets] designed to ensure that the censorship aligned with the government’s preferred viewpoints” and that “the platforms, in capitulation to state-sponsored pressure, changed their moderation policies.”
The Biden administration appealed to the Supreme Court, but it is unlikely the Supreme Court will overturn the Fifth Circuit’s decision.
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