A federal appeals court removed a legal hurdle to a new Texas law that social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook say will block them from moderating content to root out hate speech and extremism.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday put on hold a temporary injunction against key parts of the law that a lower-court judge issued in December. That means the law will no longer be blocked while a suit by a pair of trade groups for companies like Twitter Inc., Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google works its way through the courts.
