Role of AI expected to complicate court reviews of state restrictions for social media

The Supreme Court has returned for further consideration two lower court decisions that suspended the implementation of laws in Florida and Texas that seek to restrict how social media companies moderate content on their platforms, with both critics and supporters of the decision citing the increased role that artificial intelligence is likely to play in how such content is viewed and distributed.

“The States’ laws differ in the entities they cover and the activities they limit. But both curtail the...