In a ruling on the Biden administration’s purported collaboration with social media sites, the Supreme Court declared on Wednesday that the states suing the government lacked standing.
The case, known as Murthy v. Missouri, is based on a lawsuit filed by state attorneys general from Louisiana and Missouri, who claimed that senior government officials had collaborated with massive social media companies “under the guise of combating misinformation,” which ultimately resulted in speech restrictions on subjects like Hunter Biden’s laptop, the origins of COVID-19, and the effectiveness of face masks.
The majority’s author, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing to file their case.
“The plaintiffs, without any concrete link between their injuries and the defendants’ conduct, ask us to conduct a review of the years-long communications between dozens of federal officials, across different agencies, with different social-media platforms, about different topics.”
