The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether a 2021 Florida law that limits social media companies’ ability to moderate and edit content on their platforms violates the First Amendment.

In a Sept. 29 announcement, the high court agreed to hear the case of Moody v. NetChoice LLC and NetChoice LLC v. Paxton. That latter case involves a Texas law that is similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 7072, which Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody argues will protect its residents from arbitrary censorship by technology companies such as Facebook and X, formerly Twitter. 

The Florida law was passed in response to accusations that social media companies silenced certain content posted by users on their platforms, such as contested claims about the coronavirus pandemic and some reports about the business dealings by President Biden’s son, Hunter.