The Pressure on Social Media Platforms

The White House's digital media director, Rob Flaherty, was pushing Facebook officials telling them they need to do better. And there was perhaps more eager cooperation there than at Twitter. We have a client who was censored right at that time. His name is Justin Hart. For a Facebook post that said masking children is impractical and not backed by research and real world data. He was suspended from Facebook for posting that. So in response to that, we sued platforms and the Biden administration saying that they had conspired to violate his First Amendment rights. Judge Charles Breyer rejected this out of hand. There's no First Amendment problem here. But the case was allowed to go on a little bit