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frollogaston parent
I think the other comment is referring to Biden administration coercing social media companies on covid19 content ranking until a judge stopped it. Idk if this was related, but YouTube had covid19 vaccine videos promoted to a special place on its front page for over a year.
rsingel
Flagging content that's against terms of service, foreign interference or illegal (like voting by text scams) is hardly coercion.

The Supreme Court threw out the case.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c100l6jrjvno

The Twitter files were a nothing burger

fc417fc802
The article you linked states that it was thrown out for technical reasons. Multiple lower courts sided with the plantiffs so it's clear that the actions taken are far from uncontroversial.
frollogaston OP
And scotus struck down his vaccine mandate
rsingel
Just for the future reader: The court threw this out on the very reasonable grounds that the rightwing grievers who filed suit had no standing because NONE of them could show that Biden officials had anything to do with them getting kicked off platforms.

That included Gateway Pundit who got kicked off Twitter for continual election disinfo claiming the election was stolen etc. All evidence points to Twitter doing that on its own.

No one has shown any proof that any social media company took down anything that wasn't against their terms of service because of a report from a federal agency or from the Biden White House.

frollogaston OP
It wasn't about foreign interference or scams.
rsingel
Yes, actually it was. Go actually read the lawsuit. It sought to ban federal agencies across the board, including CISA, from communicating at all with social platforms.

Gateway Pundit was one of the plaintiffs and he sued because Twitter banned him for repeated election disinfo (e.g. stolen elections) and he was mad that CISA contradicted him. So was Trump who fired Chris Krebs for having the audacity to say the election wasn't stolen.

The entire lawsuit was just a part of a right-wing grievance campaign against the idea of social platforms, NGOs, or federal agencies doing any work to moderate social platforms.

The world is stupider for that campaign largely suceeding and come the next pandemic, thousands or millions could die thanks to platforms being afraid to do even the most basic moderation.

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