Supreme Court ruling on social media age verification isn’t the final word: CEI analysis
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The Supreme Court today in an emergency ruling declined to block Mississippi from enforcing an age-verification law imposed on nine social media platforms. The trade group NetChoice had asked justices to reinstate a lower court ruling siding with social media giants like Meta, X and YouTube against the state requirements. Jessica Melugin, director of CEI’s Center for Technology and Innovation, expressed confidence justice will ultimately prevail:
“Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is an unfortunate delay, but it does not alter NetChoice’s eventual likelihood of succeeding in striking down Mississippi’s ill-conceived social media age-verification law; Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence explicitly says so.”
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