The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas, US, overturned a preliminary injunction that had prevented the implementation of a bill which prevented social media content moderation. The Texas legislature had passed a law prohibiting the large social media platforms from censoring users’ posts based on viewpoint. The district court had found that the bill violated the platforms’ editorial discretion, protected under the First Amendment. The Court of Appeals held that the content moderation did not constitute First-Amendment-protected speech and the bill was therefore constitutional. This decision differs from a similar one in Florida, which had held that prohibiting content-moderation was a violation of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court will now determine the issue.