Court vacates order ending Biden administration’s contact with social media platforms

A federal court in New Orleans, US, on Friday vacated a lower court order that blocked the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies over controversial content about COVID-19 and other issues. . The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said on Friday that the White House, the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and the FBI cannot compel social media platforms to remove posts the government does not like.

The federal court set aside an order issued by a Louisiana judge on July 4 that ordered several government agencies to contact social media platforms such as Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) to urge them to remove such content. But it was banned. The court’s decision follows a lawsuit filed in northeast Louisiana that accused administrative officials of forcing social media platforms to remove social media content under the threat of changes to federal law.

The lawsuit filed in court also included allegations such as Kovid-19 vaccines, the FBI’s investigation of the laptop of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and election rigging. In this, President Joe Biden’s administration was accused of threatening the regulator to suppress conservative views. The states of Missouri and Louisiana filed the lawsuit along with the owner of a conservative website and four others opposing the administration’s COVID-19 policy. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry described the court’s decision as a major victory against censorship in a post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

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