Biden Admin Appeals Ban on Contacting Social Media Firms in Censorship Lawsuit

The Biden administration has filed an appeal asking the courts to overturn a historic ruling that blocks government agencies from contacting or working with big tech companies to censor posts on social media.
Attorneys acting on behalf of President Joe Biden and a host of federal agencies on July 5 filed a notice of appeal (pdf) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Louisiana, seeking to overturn a landmark ruling from the day prior in a censorship-by-proxy lawsuit brought by Louisiana and Missouri.
Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri sued Mr. Biden and several government agencies in May 2022, accusing them of pushing social media companies to censor posts and take down accounts in what their complaint (pdf) alleged was one of the “greatest assaults” on freedom of speech by federal officials in the history of the United States….}