Free speech wins in court.

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Four years after the Twitter Files, the Missouri v. Biden case ends in a consent decree barring government from threatening protected speech - a belated but important victory

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The general public, if it knows about this case at all, heard about the alleged “embarrassing defeat” plaintiffs like Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, future NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, and Harvard’s Dr. Martin Kulldorff suffered in the Supreme Court in early 2024. This was often misreported, as the Supreme Court really punted on procedural issues and sent the case back down to be decided. It was forgotten until a consent decree was finally issued Tuesday, ending in victory for the plaintiffs. As Kheriaty wrote, the decree prohibits:

The U.S. Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from threatening social media companies into removing or suppressing constitutionally protected speech on Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn and YouTube.

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It reached the Supreme Court and, as Aaron pointed out, ended up being an issue that helped decide the 2024 election. In the Vice Presidential debate in 2022, when J.D. Vance was asked if his running mate was a threat to democracy, he responded that the widespread assault on the First Amendment was the threat he worried about:

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