Appeals court pauses order limiting Biden administration contact with social media companies
LA TimesA federal appeals court Friday temporarily paused a lower court’s order limiting executive branch officials’ communications with social media companies about controversial online posts. Friday’s brief 5th Circuit order put Doughty’s injunction on hold “until further orders of the court.” It called for arguments in the case to be scheduled on an expedited basis. His injunction blocked the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI and other government agencies and administration officials from “encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.” Administration lawyers said the order was overly broad and vague, raising questions about what officials can say in conversations with social media companies or in public statements. Indeed, the order denying the stay — presumably highlighting the ostensibly strongest evidence — referred to ‘a series of public media statements,’” the administration said.
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