Exhibit 1127

X Corp. v. Bonta, No. 24-271 (9th Cir.) (California Assembly Bill 587)

Exhibit 1127 · Court opinion

X Corp. v. Bonta, No. 24-271 (9th Cir.) (California Assembly Bill 587)

At minimum, the Content Category Report provisions likely fail under strict scrutiny because they are not narrowly tailored.

Reverses denial of a preliminary injunction against the content-category reporting provisions of California AB 587, which required large platforms to report whether and how they define six categories of content, including 'disinformation or misinformation' and 'foreign political interference', and holds they likely violate the First Amendment. The case is the California counterpart to the Texas and Florida statutes: a state law reaching platform moderation decisions, challenged by a platform and held likely unconstitutional.

Source: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Judge M. Smith)
Date: 4 September 2024
Quoted from: Opinion, Part III.B (pdf p. 26)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/09/04/24-271.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding INF-4.9: Primary record California's Office of Elections Cybersecurity stated that it flagged nearly 300 posts to Facebook and Twitter after the 2020 election and that 98 percent were promptly removed for violating the platforms' community standards. The Ninth Circuit held in 2023 that Twitter's compliance with such a flag was optional, and held in 2024 that the content-category reporting provisions of California's AB 587 likely violate the First Amendment.