USA Today reports:
After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested without evidence that baseball legend Hank Aaron’s death in 2021 was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine, the Biden administration pounced. “Wanted to flag the below tweet and am wondering if we can get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP,” the digital director for the White House’s COVID response team wrote in an email to an official at Twitter.
What the White House viewed as an effort to correct misinformation about a life-saving vaccine during a pandemic, critics called an example of a broad pressure campaign by the federal government to quash views it doesn’t like. The Supreme Court takes up the issue Monday, three weeks after it heard challenges to laws passed by Florida and Texas to limit the ability of social media giants to regulate user content.
Read the full article. The suit was brought five anti-vaxxers and GOP attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana.
Supreme Court to decide if White House went too far fighting social media misinformation https://t.co/3vyR4MZ8Jh
— USA TODAY Politics (@usatodayDC) March 17, 2024