The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case from a conservative commentator on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, who alleged California’s elections office coerced the platform into suspending his account, where he posted debunked claims about fraud in the 2020 election.
A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in March that the California Secretary of State’s Office of Elections Cybersecurity didn’t violate the First Amendment by flagging to Twitter false posts by Rogan O’Handley about election rigging.
Twitter suspended O’Handley’s account, @DC_Draino, in 2021, but the company reinstated it after Elon Musk took ...
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