Ruling in Missouri case against Biden shows why protecting disinformation is dangerous
U.S. President Joe Biden departs after delivering remarks on lowering health care costs in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 7, 2023. - Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS

What’s wrong with protecting disinformation by blocking a bunch of Biden administration agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies about it? The answer to that question is found right in the 155-page memo issued last week by federal judge Terry A. Doughty, along with his preliminary injunction. Doughty’s ruling was in response to a lawsuit brought by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s appointed attorney general, Andrew Bailey, and Bailey’s Louisiana counterpart, Daniel Cameron. The suit accuses President Joe Biden and a long list of others of violating the First Amendment’s...