The justice dissented in the Court’s decision that sided with the Biden administration in a social media censorship case.
Justice Samuel Alito blasted the Supreme Court for using a „new and heightened standard“ when it issued a social media censorship case’s ruling that sides with the Biden administration.
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 Wednesday that a group of Republican-led states lacked the ground to sue the federal government over its efforts to combat misinformation on social media platforms. Alito wrote the dissenting opinion in Murthy v. Missouri and was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
In his dissent, Alito argued that the Court reached its conclusion „by applying a
new and heightened standard“ of traceability. He said that in order for the plaintiffs to sue the White House, they had to identify a „causal connection“ between the actions of those officials and the alleged censorship but did not need to prove that the censorship took place only because of those actions.
„The Court notes that Facebook began censoring COVID-19-related misinformation before officials from the White House and the Surgeon General’s Office got involved“, Alito wrote.
