Biden admin claims 'irreparable harm,' seeks to keep meeting with Big Tech after ruling ordered it to stop

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https://news.yahoo.com/biden-admin-claims-irreparable-harm-015000138.html

The Biden administration is asking a court to stay a preliminary
injunction preventing it from meeting with tech companies about social
media censorship.

In a court memo filed Thursday, the Biden administration argued that it
faced "irreparable harm" because the injunction may prevent it from
"working with social media companies on initiatives to prevent grave harm
to the American people and our democratic processes."

"These immediate and ongoing harms to the Government outweigh any risk of
injury to Plaintiffs if a stay is granted, and for the same reason, a stay
is in the public interest," the court memo stated.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty chose Independence Day to issue an
injunction blocking multiple government agencies and administration
officials. In his words, they are forbidden to meet with or contact social
media companies for the purpose of "encouraging, pressuring, or inducing
in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content
containing protected free speech."

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The order also prohibits the agencies and officials from pressuring social
media companies "in any manner" to try to suppress posts.

Doughty's order blocks the administration from taking such actions pending
further arguments in his court in a lawsuit filed by Republican attorneys
general in Missouri and Louisiana.

The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal and said it would also
seek to try to stay the court's order.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "We certainly
disagree with this decision." She declined to comment further.

An administration official said there was some concern about the impact
the decision would have on efforts to counter domestic extremism — deemed
by the intelligence community to be a top threat to the nation — but that
it would depend on how long the injunction remains in place and what steps
platforms take on their own.

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The lawsuit alleges that government officials used the possibility of
favorable or unfavorable regulatory action to coerce social media
platforms to squelch what the administration considered misinformation on
a variety of topics, including COVID-19 vaccines, President Biden's son
Hunter and election integrity.

The injunction — and Doughty's accompanying reasons saying the
administration "seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian
'Ministry of Truth'" — were hailed by conservatives as a victory for free
speech and a blow to censorship.

Social media companies routinely take down posts that violate their own
standards, but they are rarely compelled to do so by the U.S. government.

Administration attorneys, in past court filings, have called the lawsuit
an attempt to gag the free speech rights of administration officials
themselves.

Doughty has previously ruled against the Biden administration in other
high-profile cases involving oil drilling and vaccination mandates.

In 2021, he issued a nationwide block of a Biden administration
requirement that health care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19. A
panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals trimmed the area covered by
the order to 14 states that were plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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