Exhibit 1118 ยท Court order (consent decree)
Consent Decree, Missouri v. Biden, No. 3:22-cv-01213 (W.D. La.), Doc. 478
This prohibition does not extend to providing Social-Media Companies with information that the companies are free to use as they wish.
Ends the case by consent. Binds the Surgeon General, CDC and CISA for ten years not to threaten the platforms Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or X, LinkedIn and YouTube with 'some form of punishment' unless they remove or reduce protected speech, and not to 'unilaterally direct or veto' their moderation decisions (paras. 23-25), limited to the plaintiffs' own accounts (para. 26). Paragraph 24 permits giving the companies information and saying that posts are inaccurate. Paragraph 17 states the decree is not evidence or an admission. The introduction and paragraphs 6-8 quote Executive Order 14149 of 20 January 2025; paragraph 5 records that standing discovery allowed on 8 November 2024 was stayed on 3 February 2025.
- Source
- U.S. District Court, W.D. La. (Judge Terry A. Doughty), entered on the consent of the plaintiffs and the federal defendants
- Date
- 25 March 2026
- Quoted from
- Consent Decree para. 24 (ECF p. 7 of 11)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.478.0.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit