Louisiana AG: Federal deal limits social media censorship

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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill stated Tuesday that Louisiana secured federal consent decree with the Trump administration, banning the federal government from using coercion tactics to force social media companies into censoring the speech of the American people.

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Murrill said the new consent decree ends the litigation and gives Louisiana the power to enforce this decree against the federal government. According to the decree, "the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) (“Enjoined Defendants”), and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly—except as authorized by the Constitution, statute, judicial order, or regulation—to threaten Social-Media Companies with some form of punishment (i.e., an adverse legal, regulatory, or economic government sanction) unless they remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech.

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