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US Supreme Court sidesteps ruling on Republican-backed social media laws

The US Supreme Court has declined to rule on contentious social media laws in Texas and Florida [Susan Walsh/AP]

The United States’s top court has declined to rule on whether Republican-backed laws limiting social media platforms’ ability to moderate content violate freedom of speech, kicking the issue back to lower courts.

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Courts of Appeals for the 5th and 11th Circuits to review the laws in Texas and Florida again, arguing the courts had not properly addressed the statutes’ compatibility with the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

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