A Trump-Appointed Judge Just Handed Right-Wingers a Huge Victory in Their Fight Against Purported Social Media Bias

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% :One First Amendment law expert, Jameel Jaffer, who runs the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told the Times, "It can't be that the government violates the First Amendment simply by engaging with the platforms about their content-moderation decisions and policies.
32% : In a scathing and very long 155-page opinion filed Tuesday, US District Court judge Terry Doughty claimed Joe Biden's administration used "Orwellian" censorship tactics during the pandemic, possibly violating the First Amendment by encouraging companies like Twitter and Facebook to remove scientifically unsound attacks on public health measures (like anti-vaccine rhetoric) as well as by flagging accounts pretending to be members of Biden's family, conspiracies about the validity of the 2020 election, and posts about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

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