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The Supreme Court threw out two cases on Monday regarding Texas and Florida’s anti-social media “censorship” laws, sending them back to lower courts.

The Details: In a unanimous 9-0 vote, the High Court determined the cases were not properly analyzed by the lower courts and should be reviewed again. The laws, which have been billed as attempts to protect the First Amendment rights of users, aimed to curtail how social media platforms regulate content.

For Context: The laws are opposed by lobbyists representing about 40 prominent tech companies and supported by many conservatives who believe social media platforms are biased against them. While lower courts previously upheld the Texas law but blocked Florida's, the Supreme Court unanimously argued that neither court carried out a proper analysis of First Amendment matters.

How the Media Covered It: The New York Post (Lean Right bias) described the laws as “ meant to protect conservative voices on major platforms like Facebook and X.” Yahoo News (Lean Left bias) underscored the Supreme Court's unanimous decision as a short-term win for social media giants but noted that the issue is not fully settled. Forbes (Center bias) noted that despite being brought by Republican-led states, the laws have received support from several progressive and liberal legal experts but opposition from the Biden administration. This summary was developed with the help of AllSides' AI technology.

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The Supreme Court handed a temporary win to social media giants like Facebook (META), YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL), and TikTok as it sent a set of free speech cases back to the lower courts.

But the unanimous decision left unsettled the question of whether states can strip dominant social media companies of their power to unilaterally block users or remove posts that express certain viewpoints.

The set of cases before the high court challenged state laws in Florida and Texas limiting the capacity of such platforms to moderate posts.

The Supreme Court punted Monday on two cases concerning whether Florida and Texas’ anti-social media “censorship” laws are lawful under the First Amendment—providing no real clarity for either GOP-led states or the social media companies challenging them, as the court sent both cases back to lower courts after justices ruled unanimously that the lower courts hadn’t properly evaluated the issue.

The Supreme Court declined to rule Monday on challenges to laws out of Florida and Texas that curtail content regulation by social media giants, a rule meant to protect conservative voices on major platforms like Facebook and X.

In a unanimous decision for the combined NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice cases authored by liberal Justice Elana Kagan, the high court concluded that neither of the lower courts which considered the laws “conducted a proper analysis of the facial First Amendment challenges.”