Plant City man sues Facebook, claiming 'censorship' of coronavirus posts [View all]

The lawsuit argues that the social media platform is a “state actor” subject to the First Amendment.

A Plant City man is suing Facebook, alleging the company has violated the First Amendment by “censoring” certain posts about COVID-19 on behalf of the Biden administration.

Richard Rogalinski, a 38-year-old Army veteran and business owner, said he is bringing forward the lawsuit on behalf of himself and any other Facebook users in America who had their activity on the platform “censored, modified, hidden, appended or curtailed” between Inauguration Day 2021 and July 19 — the date the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Middle District of Florida.

However, the company has monitored and attempted to correct medical misinformation on its platform in the past, such as moderating rumors about measles in Samoa and polio vaccines in Pakistan. Shortly after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, Facebook released an update on its efforts to fight misinformation about the virus, writing in the March 25, 2020, post, “Ever since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global public health emergency, we’ve been working to connect people to accurate information and taking aggressive steps to stop misinformation and harmful content from spreading.”
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Rogalinski said he decided to sue after a July 15 press briefing in which White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration had been working to flag misinformation about COVID-19 for Facebook and had proposed changes to the social media platform and other online networks to combat misinformation about the pandemic.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/08/10/plant-city-man-sues-facebook-claiming-censorship-of-coronavirus-posts/

Dumbass.