Trump

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ROCK THE VOTE, et al., Case No. 20-cv-06021-WHO

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

v. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND

GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS

DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 19, 31, 37 Defendants.

12 INTRODUCTION How companies like Facebook and Twitter moderate their on-line platforms, and what legal protection they should receive as a result of their efforts to moderate false and offensive speech, are significant matters of public interest. President Trump, an avid user of social media, thinks he is being censored when Twitter identifies a tweet as false. But he is hardly the only person concerned about these issues, and those concerns exist (for different reasons) across the political spectrum. Plaintiffs, various organizations involved in registering, mobilizing, and educating voters and/or advocating for online platforms to do more to restrict or bar hateful or incorrect information online,…