Uphill Legal Battle for Those Censored on Social Media

An amended lawsuit alleges the government and social media companies continue to cooperate to limit free speech.

Conservative demonstrators, who allege that the government pressured or colluded with social media platforms to censor right-leaning content under the guise of fighting misinformation, protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 18, 2024, as the Court hears oral arguments in the case of Murthy v. Missouri. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Ernesto Ramirez Jr. received a Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 on April 19, 2021. Five days later, he was dead.

“We got the Pfizer vaccine because I thought it was to protect him,” Ernest Ramirez, Ernesto’s father, testified in a panel discussion for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Nov. 9, 2021.