Texas Law Targeting Facebook, Twitter Put on Hold By Judge
- The law bans social-media companies from suspending accounts
- GOP-backed law passed after Trump’s bans from social media
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A new Texas law that will largely block social media companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook from moderating content to root out hate speech and extremism was put on hold by a federal judge hours before it was due to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin late Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of key provisions of the law while two prominent technology industry trade groups sue to overturn it.