The Supreme Court declined an emergency request on Thursday to halt enforcement of a Mississippi law requiring age-verification for social media websites, allowing the statute to be enforced as litigation continues in a lower court.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue of growing national concern. The justices rejected an emergency appeal from a tech industry group representing major platforms like Facebook,

The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a request from a tech industry group to temporarily bar Mississippi from enforcing a state law that restricts access by young people to […]

Justice Brett Kavanaugh says Mississippi’s age verification law is probably unconstitutional, but it can move forward anyway.

An internet trade group filed a lawsuit against Colorado Thursday morning, challenging a new law that would require social media platforms to regularly send pop-up notifications to minors using their sites.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the law would “likely” violate the First Amendment rights of social media companies.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent in a challenge by a trade group whose members include Meta's Facebook,

The decision marks a setback for companies like Facebook, X and YouTube, which argue the law violates free speech rights.

The court refused to intervene in a decision that affirmed a Mississippi law requiring social media users to verify their ages