From The Golf Room

     In the past few years, the Supreme Court has considered a number of important cases about social media and free speech. From the Florida and Texas NetChoice cases determining whether state governments could regulate platforms’ content moderation practices to the Murthy v. Missouri case about pandemic-era censorship, at the heart of each of these cases was the question of whether government power should be used to regulate how private companies elevate speech and truth on their platforms in response to a growing fear of social media’s dangers.      In Moody v. NetChoice LLC , Justice Elena Kagan described social media platforms as services that “make our lives better, and make them worse—create unparalleled opportunities and unprecedented dangers.” The biggest danger created by, or rather exacerbated by, social media platforms is the bending of truth. In recent years, fake news, rumors, conspiracy theories, and contradicting ideas online have dominate...