Supreme Court Sends Social Media Laws Back to Lower Courts (2)

The US Supreme Court sent a pair of cases about state laws that restrict social media content curation back to lower courts, ruling there isn’t enough information about how the laws apply to Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other major tech companies.

Voting 9-0, the court said the Republican-backed Texas and Florida measures require further analysis, declining to decide whether they’re constitutional. The court did find that the lower courts failed to properly assess the First Amendment issues central to the dispute — though the case elicited five different opinions from the justices.

The ruling is ...