The White House has been barred in lower-court rulings from putting pressure on social-media platforms.
Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/APWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is stepping into the debate over speech rights and misinformation online, agreeing Friday to review lower-court rulings barring White House aides and other officials from pressuring social-media platforms to take down content disfavored by the government.
The brief order, which put the lower-court decisions on hold until the Supreme Court rules on the issue, was unsigned, as is typical.
The court’s three most-conservative justices dissented, warning that “government censorship of private speech” could result.
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