Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Social Media Age Verification Law for Now

The US Supreme Court has rebuffed the country’s biggest social media platforms, letting Mississippi enforce a law for now that will impose age-verification and parental-consent requirements while the legal fight goes forward.

The justices on Thursday turned away a request from NetChoice, a trade association that represents Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and Elon Musk’s X Corp. The group had asked to keep the law on hold while litigation goes forward.