Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
The SCOTUS agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, both stemming from terrorist content on the services  —  The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued over targeted content recommendations …

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida’s attorney general asks the US Supreme Court whether the First Amendment prohibits states from regulating how social media companies moderate content  —  The state attorney general filed a petition to the Court on Wednesday, after two lower courts split on decisions about social media laws

Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocks the Texas social media law from going into effect, as industry groups seek to bring the case to the Supreme Court  —  The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a controversial Texas social media law from going into effect Wednesday as industry groups seek to bring the case to the Supreme Court.

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court  —  A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas’ content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”  —  Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against.

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
SCOTUS refused to hear an appeal by Virginia-based Centripetal Networks to reinstate a $2.75B award to be paid by Cisco in a cybersecurity patent dispute  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Centripetal Networks Inc to reinstate the largest award in the history of U.S. patent law …