This week, a California decide denied X’s try and get round a state legislation requiring social media firms to reveal their moderation insurance policies.

On Thursday, U.S. District Choose William Shubb dominated that X should adjust to California’s AB 587. The invoice, handed final 12 months, makes social media firms working in California disclose how they average excessive content material that includes hate speech, harassment and worldwide political content material.

X initially argued that the legislation violated the First Modification, saying AB 587 would require websites like X to take away content material and didn’t coherently outline the kinds of excessive prose it references.

Choose Shubb disagreed, saying the legislation merely asks firms to reveal moderation insurance policies.

“Whereas the reporting requirement does seem to put a considerable compliance burden on social media firms,” he wrote, “it doesn’t seem that the requirement is unjustified or unduly burdensome inside the context of First Modification legislation.”

Thursday’s choice is the second California court docket defeat this week for X. The primary got here when a California decide dominated that X must face a court docket battle over allegedly not paying promised worker bonuses.

Since shopping for the social media firm final 12 months, Elon Musk has opened free speech, particularly for conservatives banned by the earlier regime.