Supreme Court Sets Standard for When a Public Official Can Block Users on Social Media
The case marked an important moment in First Amendment and social media debates that have been arising in recent years — a similar dispute involving President Trump’s Twitter reached the court in 2021 but was ruled moot.
In an important First Amendment case centering around the extent to which a public official’s own social media page is a public forum, the Supreme Court on Friday set standards for when social media expression can be considered state speech.
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