Finally, Good News: Free Speech Wins Big in Court
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
In the first week of December, 2022, a group of reporters now scattered and divided over the Iran War and other issues searched through a pile of raw correspondence at the San...
**Steelman:** The *Missouri v. Biden* consent decree represents a critical victory for free speech advocates, codifying protections against government coercion of social media platforms. The evidence from the *Twitter Files* and internal memos demonstrated a systemic effort by federal agencies to influence content moderation under the guise of combating misinformation. The decree’s language is unambiguous: agencies cannot threaten platforms to suppress protected speech, even in contexts like pub...
