Nonprofits, States Urge High Court To Take Up Social Media, State-Actor Case

(August 30, 2023, 11:09 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of states, a coalition of nonprofit groups and a legal organization filed amicus curiae briefs supporting a conservative commentator’s petition for certiorari in which he asks the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify whether a state agency violates the First Amendment when it coerces a social network operator to delete users’ speech that the government deems disfavored....