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Supreme Court will decide Biden-GOP clash over social media and COVID disinformation

The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 2020 in Washington, D.C..

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a second major case on social media and will decide whether the Biden White House violated the First Amendment when it urged platforms to take down “misinformation and disinformation” about COVID-19.

Three conservatives dissented from the court’s decision to hear the case.

“Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch wrote, calling the court’s

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