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US appeals court lifts block on Mississippi online age-verification law

By Maria Dinzeo ( July 17, 2025, 17:25 GMT | Insight) -- Mississippi can begin enforcing its social media age-verification law after a federal appeals court paused a lower court’s ruling that had blocked the measure on First Amendment grounds. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s one-page order hands a procedural win to state officials in their legal battle with NetChoice, the tech industry group representing Meta, Snapchat and YouTube.Mississippi will be allowed to enforce its law requiring age-verification for minors to access social media sites, as a federal appeals court stayed a lower court’s order that had blocked the measure amid a constitutional challenge from tech industry group NetChoice....

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