STORY: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not impose limits on President Joe Biden's administration's communications with social media platforms.

The case involved a lawsuit trying to block the government's efforts to have platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - now called X - to take down content the administratoin deemed misinformation about vaccines and election fraud.

The 6-3 ruling by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the plaintiffs - two Republican state attorneys general and several social media users - lacked standing to show they'd been harmed.

The Biden Administration argued that public health officials trying to prevent unnecessary deaths amid a pandemic were performing their duty by alerting platforms about content that violated those platforms' own policies on misinformation.

But Republicans and various voices on the right argued that the platforms suppressed conservative political views. They claimed that the Biden Administration's requests crossed the line into government coercion - a form of state action barred by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Wednesday's ruling reverses a lower-court injunction barring an array of government officials from communicating with platforms regarding content moderation, such as urging the deletion of certain posts.