The Fifth Circuit is Wrong on the Internet
Our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem has been taking a bit of a hiatus\u2014but we\u2019re back! On today\u2019s episode, we\u2019re discussing the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in NetChoice v. Paxton, upholding a Texas law that binds large social media platforms to certain transparency requirements and significantly limits their ability to moderate content. The decision is truly a wild ride\u2014so unhinged that it\u2019s difficult to figure out where First Amendment law in this area might go next.
To discuss, Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic sat down with fellow Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein and Alex Abdo, the litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University\u2014who\u2019s come on the podcast before to discuss the case. They tried to make sense of the Fifth Circuit\u2019s ruling and chart out alternative possibilities for what good-faith jurisprudence on social media regulation might look like.
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