he Constitution when it pressured tech companies to remove from their platforms what federal officials said was false or misleading content about the 2020 election and Covid-19.
In an order Friday afternoon, the justices agreed to hear the Biden administration s challenge to a lower court order blocking it from urging social media companies to remove certain content that the White House claimed was misinformation around Covid-19 vaccines, Hunter Biden s laptop and the contested 2020 election results.
In taking the case, the justices also blocked the lower court s injunction, which had been set to kick in within minutes and would have barred many types of contact between federal officials and the social media giants. The high court s action means that administration officials can keep contacting social media companies for now while the justices weigh the case.