Justices Urged to Weigh Social Media Laws Amid Appeals Split

The constitutionality of state laws regulating Twitter Inc., Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook, and other social media is teed up for the US Supreme Court to decide in its upcoming term, after two federal appeals courts split on the question.

Florida asked the justices Sept. 21 to review a US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decision largely blocking its law barring platforms from suspending politician’s accounts. The move followed a Sept. 16 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding a Texas law that bars platforms with more than 50 million users from content ...