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    Supreme Court questions whether Texas and Florida can regulate social media to 'protect' speech

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2024 3 minutes
    The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether Florida and Texas can regulate social media to protect "conservative speech."

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sounded divided Monday during arguments on whether Florida and Texas can regulate popular social media sites and impose heavy fines on those that they find discriminate against conservatives or "deplatform" prominent Republicans, as happened to former President Donald Trump after he continued to spread false claims about the 2020 election.

    Most of the justices appeared to agree that the two states' laws would violate the free-speech rights of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and others if the social media companies were punished for removing content they deemed as objectionable or

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