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MURTHY v. MISSOURI 

Opinion of the Court 

with LinkedIn. 

Drs.  Bhattacharya  and  Kulldorff  claim  that,  after  disa-
greeing  with  the  CDC  and  other  federal  health  officials,
they  faced  a  “relentless  covert  campaign  of  social-media 
censorship.”  App. 585 (emphasis deleted).  They refer to the
platforms’  suppression  of  the  Great  Barrington  Declara-
tion,  their  coauthored  report  calling  for  an  end  to  lock-
downs.  But their declarations do not suggest that anyone 
at the CDC was involved; rather, they point to officials at 
the  National  Institutes  of  Health  and  the  NIAID.    Those 
entities are not before us.  With nothing else to show, Drs. 
Bhattacharya,  Kulldorff,  and  Kheriarty  have  not  estab-
lished a likelihood that their past restrictions are traceable
to either the White House officials or the CDC. 

Jim Hoft.  Both Hoft and his news website, “The Gateway
Pundit,”  experienced  election  and  COVID–19-related  re-
strictions on various platforms.  Hoft tries to demonstrate 
his standing to sue only the FBI and CISA, which means
that only the suppression of his election-related posts is rel-
evant.  (As  already  discussed,  the  record  contains  no  evi-
dence that either the FBI or CISA engaged with the plat-
forms about the pandemic.)  First, Hoft points to the FBI’s
role in the platforms’ adoption of hacked-material policies.
And  he  claims  that  Twitter,  in  December  2020,  censored 
content about the Hunter Biden laptop story under such a
policy.  The  post  was  titled:  “Where’s  Hunter?    How  is 
Hunter Celebrating the New Year?  New Photos of Hunter 
Biden Pushing Drugs on Women Emerge.”  Hoft’s own dec-
laration  reveals  that  Twitter  acted  according  to  its  “rules
against  posting  or  sharing  privately  produced/distributed 
intimate media of someone without their express consent.” 
Id., at 608.  Hoft provides no evidence that Twitter adopted 
a  policy  against  posting  private,  intimate  content  in  re-
sponse  to  the  FBI’s  warnings  about  hack-and-leak  opera-
tions.  Plus, it was Hoft’s brother, Joe Hoft, who posted this 
tweet; Twitter therefore suspended Joe Hoft’s account.  It is