Similar laws nationwide are being challenged and blocked by federal courts over potential First Amendment violations.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to take another look at a pair of laws from Florida and Texas that imposed restrictions on how social media companies can moderate ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kicked challenges to Republican-backed social media moderation laws in Florida and Texas back to the lower courts. The laws prohibited social media platforms from ...

Proposed Texas legislation, Bill 186, would ban minors from social media, enforce parental consent, and address the risks associated with digital platforms.

A bill that would have banned minors from having a social media account has missed a deadline to pass in the Texas Senate.

In a Monday morning statement, CCIA President Matt Schruers said he was pleased that the court seemed to recognize the First Amendment challenges in Texas and Florida's social media laws.

The cases — Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton — stem from laws in Florida and Texas that seek to prevent social media platforms such as Facebook and X from removing content and ...

More Supreme Court news today, the High Court kept two social media laws in Florida and Texas on hold. The laws are an effort from Republican-led states to curb what they say is censorship of ...

TEXAS, USA — Many Texas legislators said ... "The courts that have examined these kinds of laws, the social media access laws in particular, no court has upheld it as constitutional,” says ...

News and sports websites will be safe. As of June 2024, 10 states, including Texas, have passed laws restricting children's access to social media, according to the Age Verification Providers ...