Mealey's (August 13, 2024, 10:26 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of the Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) suit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by censoring what CHD says are accurate posts challenging the government’s “orthodoxy” as to the safety of vaccines, finding that Meta, as a private corporation, cannot be treated as a state actor for constitutional purposes because CHD failed to show that Meta’s censorship was a provision of federal law....