The Trump-appointed judge denied the Biden Justice Department’s request for a stay of a ruling that puts extraordinary limits on government communications with social media companies.
Doughty also said the Republican state attorneys general who brought the lawsuit are likely to prove that a variety of government agencies and government officials “coerced, significantly encouraged, and/or jointly participated” in suppressing social media posts that included anti-vaccination views and questioned the results of the 2020 elections.about 2024 election preparations with Facebook’s parent company, Meta, in the wake of Doughty’s injunction.
“It strikes me as overly broad and intentionally counterproductive in terms of the work that all of us do to push back against disinformation,” Simon said. Still, he noted that the suit was rooted in part in an argument that the federal government’s regulatory role gave it leverage that his office doesn’t have.
“We don’t have guns and badges. There are no penalties we can impose. There is no license we can revoke or suspend,” he said. “We’re in the democracy business, not in the regulatory business.”
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