The Courts vs. Misinformation Cops

On this week’s The Motive Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman mull over final week’s ruling towards the Biden administration regarding politically disfavored speech on social media in addition to Twitter’s newest competitor—Threads—and the newest from the Ron DeSantis marketing campaign.

0:25: A federal choose orders Biden administration officers to cease encouraging social media firms to censor disfavored content material.

19:57: Threads: Meta’s Twitter competitor

31:50: Weekly Listener Query

39:14: The “Mamas for DeSantis” initiative

51:08: This week’s cultural suggestions

Talked about on this podcast:

“Social media injunction unravels plans to guard 2024 elections,” by Cat Zakrzewski, Naomi Nix, and Joseph Menn

“Federal Decide to Biden Administration: Cease Telling Social Media Websites To Restrict Free Speech,” by Eric Boehm

“Journalists Outraged {That a} Decide Would Dare Restrict Biden’s Censorship Powers,” by Robby Soave

“‘Mamas for DeSantis’ Is Proof: The DeSantis Marketing campaign Is Too On-line,” by Emma Camp

“US podcast misinformation goes largely unchecked,” by Rob Lever

“‘Construct the wall,’ Florida gubernatorial tells his younger daughter in marketing campaign advert,” by Erin B. Logan

Casey DeSantis’ “Mamas for DeSantis” marketing campaign advert on Twitter

“Ron DeSantis: Good or Dangerous for Liberty?” by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller with Karol Markowicz

“What DeSantis Did to Disney’s Dream Metropolis,” by Zach Weissmueller

“The Casey DeSantis Drawback: ‘His Best Asset and His Best Legal responsibility,'” by Michael Kruse

Ron DeSantis’ “Prime Gov” 2022 advert

Ron DeSantis’ pro-Trump 2018 gubernatorial advert

“How ‘disinformation’ grew to become public enemy No. 1,” by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller with Jacob Siegel

“Did SCOTUS roll again homosexual rights and civil rights?” by Nick Gillespie with Coleman Hughes and Walter Olson

“’60s Songs That Clarify the ’90s’: ‘Tubthumping’ and the Chart-Topping Anarchists,” by Rob Harvilla

“A Unusual Museum Takes a Unusual Flip,” by Stephen Wahrhaftig

Ship your inquiries to roundtable@purpose.com. Remember to embrace your social media deal with and the right pronunciation of your title.

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Audio manufacturing by Ian Keyser; assistant manufacturing by Hunt Beaty.

Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve