Michael W. McConnell, a professor of constitutional law at Stanford Law School, is also co-chair of Meta’s Oversight Board.
While most Americans were engaged in Fourth of July festivities, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty in Louisiana shot off a different kind of fireworks. Finding “substantial evidence” that the federal government has conducted a “far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign” to pressure social media companies to suppress speech critical of government policy, Doughty issued a preliminary injunction forbidding a wide range of federal officials from communicating with social media companies to urge the removal or demotion of constitutionally protected speech (not including national security, criminal activity and certain other topics).
