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MOODY v. NETCHOICE, LLC 

Opinion of the Court 

content-moderation  provisions,  restricting  covered  plat-
forms’  choices  about  whether  and  how  to  display  user-
generated  content  to  the  public.  And  both  include 
individualized-explanation provisions, requiring platforms
to give reasons for particular content-moderation choices. 
Florida’s  law  regulates  “social  media  platforms,”  as  de-
fined expansively, that have annual gross revenue of over
$100 million or more than 100 million monthly active users. 
Fla. Stat. §501.2041(1)(g) (2023).1  The statute restricts var-
ied  ways  of  “censor[ing]”  or  otherwise  disfavoring  posts—
including  deleting,  altering,  labeling,  or  deprioritizing
them—based  on  their  content  or  source.  §501.2041(1)(b).
For example, the law prohibits a platform from taking those
actions against “a journalistic enterprise based on the con-
tent of its publication or broadcast.”  §501.2041(2)(j).  Simi-
larly, the law prevents deprioritizing posts by or about po-
litical  candidates.  See  §501.2041(2)(h).    And  the  law 
requires platforms to apply their content-moderation prac-
tices to users “in a consistent manner.”  §501.2041(2)(b).

In  addition,  the  Florida  law  mandates  that  a  platform
provide an explanation to a user any time it removes or al-
ters any of her posts.  See §501.2041(2)(d)(1).  The requisite
notice  must  be  delivered  within  seven  days,  and  contain
both a “thorough rationale” for the action and an account of
how  the  platform  became  aware  of  the  targeted  material. 
§501.2041(3). 

The Texas law regulates any social-media platform, hav-
ing over 50 million monthly active users, that allows its us-
ers “to communicate with other users for the primary pur-
pose  of  posting  information,  comments,  messages,  or 
images.”  Tex.  Bus.  &  Com.  Code  Ann.  §§120.001(1), 

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1 The  definition  of  “social-media  platforms”  covers  “any  information 
service, system, Internet search engine, or access software provider” that 
“[p]rovides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer 
server, including an Internet platform or a social media site.”  Fla. Stat. 
§501.2041(1)(g)(1).