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(Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"70.983875031494\"><body readability=\"144.12805794725\"><\/p>\n<p>In oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a case that has curtailed the ability of U.S. government officials to communicate with social media companies about the presence of disinformation on their platforms, justices appeared eager to discern when communication between the federal government and companies crosses the line and becomes coercion. <\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s arguments, both conservative and liberal justices questioned whether there are no circumstances in which the government can\u2019t communicate with third parties about taking down online content without overstepping constitutional grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Two states and five individuals brought the case in question \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/23a243.html\">Murthy v. Missouri<\/a> \u2014 arguing that government coordination with social media companies around vaccine misinformation and election fraud represents an unconstitutional breach of the First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>In a ruling that has reverberated from Washington to Silicon Valley, a lower court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/23\/23-30445-CV0.pdf\">agreed<\/a> with the plaintiffs, and decreeing that U.S. government officials trampled on free speech rights in encouraging social media platforms to remove content that questions the effectiveness of vaccines or the integrity of elections. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In oral arguments Monday, U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher argued lower courts had failed to understand the \u201cfundamental distinction between persuasion and coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While government officials often communicate with social media companies about mis- and disinformation posted online \u2014 and at times urged them to remove or block such content \u2014 Fletcher argued that these exchanges lacked the threats of retaliation that would qualify as coercion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government may not use coercive threats to suppress speech, but it is entitled to speak for itself, by informing, persuading, or criticizing speakers,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the platforms frequently denied government requests to take down posts or remove content, demonstrating that social media companies did not feel undue pressure to censor on the government\u2019s behalf, Fletcher argued.<\/p>\n<p>Several justices appeared skeptical during Monday\u2019s oral arguments that the state had violated free speech rights in communicating with platforms. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Justice Elena Kagan pressed Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Agui\u00f1aga, who argued on behalf of the plaintiffs, why a ruling in his favor wouldn\u2019t also sweep up routine exchanges that take place between the government and third parties, such as when an agency communications official calls up a newspaper to complain about a story with factual errors or to argue that an unfavorable op-ed was unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like an extremely expansive argument, I must say,\u201d Kagan mused. \u201cThis happens literally thousands of times a day in the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the court sharply disagreed with that comparison. Justice Samuel Alito claimed the persistent \u201cpestering\u201d of social media companies, along with the government\u2019s antitrust and regulatory authorities, effectively amounted to the government treating Facebook, Twitter and other platforms \u201clike their subordinates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wondered whether the government would use a similar tone when communicating with media outlets or insist that they are partners with the government. \u201cConstant meetings, constant emails. \u2018We want answers, we\u2019re partners, we\u2019re on the same team.\u2019 Do you think the print media regards itself as being on the same team as the federal government?\u201d Alito asked.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s arguments come as part of a landmark case in the evolving relationship between the government and online platforms and the ability of the former to limit the flow of false information on the latter. In recent years, the government has stepped up its information-sharing efforts with technology companies both for public health purposes but also for matters of national security, such as alerting platforms about how their tools are used by foreign states to spread propaganda. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While justices appeared broadly skeptical of the plaintiff\u2019s argument that the government had overstepped in policing speech online, it was not clear whether a clear majority of the justices would seek to preserve their ability to flag problematic speech to online platforms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed that many justices were concerned about some of the conduct of the federal government in this case and that it may have crossed a constitutional line, but they seemed equally wary of issuing a broad ruling that could impede routine communications between the government and social media companies,\u201d said Kate Ruane, director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a left-leaning Washington think tank. <\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s arguments, justices probed when communication might cross the line to become coercion and how the government\u2019s other regulatory powers might influence the perception of when communication is coercive. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Neal Gorsuch wondered whether intimating that the government would be more or less willing to use its antitrust or regulatory powers against an entity if it didn\u2019t receive cooperation would count as coercion. Chief Justice John Roberts asked whether smaller actions, like moving the desk of a newsperson to a worse position after unfavorable coverage, would be considered a form of coercion.<\/p>\n<p>Some justices balked at the absolutism of the plaintiff\u2019s position. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked if there were any circumstances \u2014 such as a hypothetical viral trend online encouraging kids to jump out of windows at ever greater heights that led to actual harm \u2014 that would provide the government with a constitutional rationale to lobby social media companies to remove harmful posts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Agui\u00f1aga said no. \u201cThe moment that the government tries to use its ability as the government and its stature as the government to pressure them to take it down, that is when you\u2019re interfering with third-party speech rights,\u201d he told the court. <\/p>\n<p>If the lower court ruling is upheld, it would have major consequences for the government\u2019s ability to share information with platforms, and government officials argue these effects are already being felt. <\/p>\n<p>The lower court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/23\/23-30445-CV0.pdf\">ruling<\/a> by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (since partially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/23a243_7l48.pdf\">lifted<\/a> by the Supreme Court while it hears the case) barred the government from not just coercing or but also \u201csignificantly encouraging\u201d social media companies to take action on controversial posts. And according to Fletcher, this injunction is \u201changing over the heads\u201d of federal officials and is impeding routine work to combat disinformation, including from overseas. <\/p>\n<p>Last month on Super Tuesday \u2014 when millions of Americans voted in primary nominating contests \u2014 a CISA official<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-no-credible-election-threats-and-no-contact-with-social-media-companies\/\"> told<\/a> CyberScoop and other reporters that the agency has not had any contact with social media companies as part of their election security mission.<br \/>A week earlier, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.,<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/warner-election-interference-disinformation\/\"> said<\/a> that in the wake of the ruling CISA, the NSA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the FBI have \u201cliterally had no communication\u201d with social media companies on election interference since July 2023. \u201cAnd that ought to scare the hell out of all of us,\u201d Warner added.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.2129032258065\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/defining-coercion-at-heart-of-supreme-court-case-on-government-jawboning-platforms-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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