Share Written by The Facebook post showed a gloved hand holding a silver needle alongside a message in bold letters: “Bill Gates explains that the COVID-19 vaccine will use experimental technology and permanently alter your DNA!” Despite violating Facebook rules to prevent the spread of lies about COVID, that post slipped past the platform’s filters in June 2021.When the court blocked Texas’s law from taking effect last spring while a legal challenge played out, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the debate stirred up by the law and others like it “will plainly merit this court’s review.” Under the Texas law, states in the Fifth Circuit — Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — would enforce “viewpoint neutrality” and “mandate that news organizations must cover certain politicians or certain other content.” Since the law will allow private citizens to sue platforms if they believe their content has been deleted for viewpoint reasons, lawyers say an onslaught of frivolous lawsuits will likely result.While legislators are concerned with perceived political bias, the new policies carry “grave implications” for companies’ efforts to fight not just disinformation, propaganda and extremism, but also everyday computer viruses, malware and fraud, says Matt Schruers, head of CCIA, which represents Meta, TikTok, Twitter and Google.“We just had the FDA warning against this NyQuil chicken nonsense,” he said, citing an example of content that won’t be removed in the future if the Supreme Court rules against the platforms.Rose Jackson of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab called the Florida and Texas laws “highly partisan messaging bills” and “largely unenforceable.” Still, the tech advocacy groups say they are alarmed by the laws’ ambitions and are actively working with engineers and lawyers to prepare for the possibility"