USCA11 Case: 21-12355 10 Date Filed: 05/23/2022 Opinion of the Court Page: 10 of 67 21-12355 Content-Moderation Restrictions • Candidate deplatforming: A social-media platform “may not willfully deplatform a candidate for office.” Fla. Stat. § 106.072(2). The term “deplatform” is defined to mean “the action or practice by a social media platform to permanently delete or ban a user or to temporarily delete or ban a user from the social media platform for more than 14 days.” Id. § 501.2041(1)(c). • Posts by or about candidates: “A social media platform may not apply or use post-prioritization or shadow banning algorithms for content and material posted by or about . . . a candidate.” Id. § 501.2041(2)(h). “Post prioritization” refers to the practice of arranging certain content in a more or less prominent position in a user’s feed or search results. Id. § 501.2041(1)(e). 3 “Shadow banning” refers to any action to “limit or eliminate the exposure of a user or content or material posted by a user to other users of [a] . . . platform.” Id. § 501.2041(1)(f). • “Journalistic enterprises”: A social-media platform may not “censor, deplatform, or shadow ban a journalistic enterprise based on the content of its publication or broadcast.” Id. § 501.2041(2)(j). The term “journalistic enterprise” is defined broadly to include any entity doing business in Florida 3 For purposes of this appeal, the State does not defend the Act’s post-prioriti- zation provisions.

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