US Supreme Court’s Social Media Clash Evokes Trump’s Use of Twitter
- Justices weigh power of officials to restrict access to feeds
- Twitter was one way Trump ‘wielded his authority,’ Kagan says
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
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The US Supreme Court debated whether public officials can be sued for restricting access to their social media feeds in cases that evoked former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block people from his Twitter account.
Hearing the first of several social media clashes in their 2023-24 term, the justices on Tuesday weighed how the First Amendment’s free speech protections apply when government officials use their private accounts to discuss public business.