The Government Needs to Act Fast to Protect the Election
Following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision, federal agencies can and should resume their efforts to communicate with social-media companies about disinformation online.
The sophistication, scope, and scale of disinformation in this year’s election could be beyond anything the country has experienced before. The federal government will not be able to solve this problem entirely, but because of Wednesday’s decision in Murthy v. Missouri, it will at least be able to work with social-media companies to try.
The legal challenge to the federal government’s efforts on this front in the case on behalf of a bipartisan group of current and former election officials, highlighting the importance of communication between social-media companies and the government.)
