BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill announced that Louisiana and Missouri secured a federal consent decree regarding social media censorship.
A federal lawsuit against the Biden administration was filed in 2022, alleging that the previous administration pressured social media companies into censoring posts about the COVID-19 pandemic, reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop and elections. In 2024, the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration.
According to the consent decree, the Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Cybersecruity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) “shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly—except as authorized by the Constitution, statute, judicial order, or regulation—to threaten Social-Media Companies with some form of punishment (i.e., an adverse legal, regulatory, or economic government sanction) unless they remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech.”…