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A federal appeals court sided with a Texas law restricting how social media sites can moderate their platforms. Now Texans can sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content.

- After a federal appeals court sided with a Texas law restricting how social media sites can moderate their platforms, residents in the Lone Star State can now sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content.

Texas's law makes it illegal for any social media platform with 50 million or more US monthly users to"block, ban, remove, deplatform, demonetize, de-boost, restrict, deny equal access or visibility to, or otherwise discriminate against expression."

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