The Supreme Court  on Monday dismissed challenges to Florida and Texas laws that restrict how large social media companies moderate user content. 

Each law would require Big Tech companies like X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook to host third-party communications but prevent those businesses from blocking or removing users’ posts based on political viewpoints.

In a unanimous ruling, the court said lower courts did not properly analyze the First Amendment issues at play in the case. As a result, each case will go back to its respective Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Today, we vacate both decisions for reasons separate from the First Amendment merits, because neither Court of Appeals properly considered the facial nature of NetChoice’s challenge. The courts mainly addressed what the parties had focused on. And the parties mainly argued these cases as if the laws applied only to the curated feeds offered by the largest and most paradigmatic social-media platforms—as if, say, each case presented an as-applied challenge brought by Facebook protesting its loss of control over the content of its News Feed,” the court wrote.

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“But argument in this Court revealed that the laws might apply to, and differently affect, other kinds of websites and apps. In a facial challenge, that could well matter, even when the challenge is brought under the First Amendment,” the court added.

There were no dissenting opinions; five justices filed separate concurring or concurring in judgment opinions as well. They included Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.

In almost four hours of oral arguments in February, the justices weighed whether to offer a sweeping ruling on the First Amendment implications of the state laws, or a more limited approach that might have the lower courts take another look at how those content moderation policies would be applied.

The Florida law blocked a social media platform from engaging in censoring, prioritizing, or so-called “shadow banning” that is “based on the content.” Texas’ law was broader.

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Florida’s social media law blocked a social media platform from engaging in censoring, prioritizing, or so-called “shadow banning” “based on the content.”  (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

It would have also prevented “willfully deplatforming a candidate” for public office for material posted by or about that candidate.

Both Florida and Texas would also require those companies to notify a user when their content has been modified or edited, along with an explanation for that action.

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Members of the Supreme Court, from left, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Elena Kagan, and Brett M. Kavanaugh on Sept. 30, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)

Trade groups representing big tech companies argue that the laws violate their free speech rights to decide what content meets their policies — saying their forums should not be an open-ended portal for offensive or dangerous speech — including school bullying, harassment, terrorist ideology, racial hatred, medical misinformation and voter fraud.

The laws were supported by Republicans in Congress and over a dozen GOP-led states, who filed amicus briefs in the case. 

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said the platforms wanted to keep liability protections granted by Congress for content on their sites, while simultaneously asking for unfettered ability to censor content, citing their First Amendment liberties.

“Despite decades arguing for this position, today the tech platforms take precisely the opposite line. They claim that their content hosting and curation decisions are in fact expressive — expressive enough that they enjoy First Amendment protection,” the lawmaker argued.

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The bodies of two Georgia firefighters who recently broke off their relationship were found on Sunday in Tennessee, more than one week after they went missing, officials said.

The Hinesville Police Department confirmed the discovery of Raegan Anderson, 25, and her ex-boyfriend, Chandler Kuhbander, 24, in Cocke County, about 450 miles north of their hometown. Their bodies were found in Anderson’s vehicle.

Kuhbander’s mother, Jane Kuhbander, told Court TV last week that they had been together for more than seven years before ending the “toxic” union.

Anderson, Jane said, struggled to accept the end of the relationship and repeatedly threatened to kill herself.

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Her son, she said, had gone on a date with another woman on June 23, the day before he disappeared, and Anderson allegedly found his car and keyed it.

She was arrested for the crime and later bonded out. Anderson believed she was likely to lose her job with the fire department and expressed her spiraling fears to Kuhbander.

The following day, Kuhbander went to work out at a Crunch Fitness center in Savannah, Georgia, and planned to later attend his younger sister’s birthday party.

Surveillance cameras show Anderson circling the parking lot outside several times while he was inside, the mother said.

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Aurora Kuhbander with her older brother, Chandler Kuhbander, left, whose body was found in Tennessee on Sunday. (Facebook)

He eventually exited the gym and began heading to his car, the video shows.

However, the mother said she believes he got into her 2017 Ford Focus under “duress” – and was never heard from again.

Prior to the discovery of the bodies, she told the network that Anderson was not in the right “head space” and wrote a suicide note to her son the day before they vanished.

In a Facebook post, she described Anderson as a “danger to herself and [her son] is believed to not be with her willingly.”

Despite their breakup, Kuhbander continued to try to comfort Anderson but was sometimes forced to plead with her to stop harassing him.

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Firefighters Chandler Kuhbander and Raegan Anderson, whose bodies were found Sunday in Tennessee. (Facebook)

“He’s very driven to do the right thing and make sure people are safe,” she told Court TV. “He really does care about Raegan.”

Days later, they were both found dead.

An autopsy will be performed on the Liberty County firefighters to determine their manner of death.

“Details pertaining to the discovery of their bodies, vehicle and events leading to their deaths are not available at this time,” police said after the bodies were found.

Chandler Kuhbander with his mom, Jane Kuhbander. (Facebook)

Kuhbander’s shattered sister wrote a tribute to her sibling on Facebook.

“Trying to find the words to say goodbye but i can’t. It’s tearing me apart to even think about not having you here. Never in my life did I think I would have to be doing life without you,” she wrote. “It’s always been my two big brothers but now it’s just me and Xander. We will honor you in every way possible. No one will ever not know who you are and how good of a person you are. I love you forever bub.”

Ashley Papa contributed to this report.

A family of five from Georgia has died in a small plane crash in upstate New York after leaving a baseball tournament in Cooperstown, police say. 

The victims, identified as Harrison VanEpps, 10, James VanEpps, 12, Ryan VanEpps, 42, Laura VanEpps, 43 and Roger Beggs, 76, were killed Sunday afternoon in the accident near Lake Cecil Road in the town of Masonville, according to New York State Police. 

“All of the passengers are family members from the state of Georgia and were in Cooperstown, NY for a baseball tournament,” police said. 

“The plane departed from Alfred S. Nader Regional Airport in Oneonta, NY and was traveling to West Virginia to refuel with its ultimate destination as Cobb County International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia,” State Police added. 

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Cooperstown is the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. 

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday called the incident “tragic,” and asked the public to join him and his family “in praying for the loved ones of the Beggs and VanEpps families,” WSB-TV reported. 

“We offer our deepest condolences to all who knew and loved them,” the governor reportedly added. 

A single-engine Piper PA-46 crashed near Sidney, New York, on Sunday afternoon. Authorities are seen responding to the crash site. (WICZ)

The Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the crash along with the National Transportation Safety Board, told Fox News Digital that the plane involved in the crash was a single-engine Piper PA-46. 

All those on board the plane died, the FAA added. 

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A Piper PA-46-310P plane, similar to the one involved in the crash in New York on Sunday, June 30. (aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

An NTSB spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the agency is looking for witness reports as they “will be very helpful to the investigation.” 

“A multi-agency effort search of the area, with the utilization of drones, ATV’s and helicopters led to the discovery of debris and ultimately to the downed aircraft,” New York State Police said. 

New York State Police added that its “Bureau of Criminal of Investigation, Collision Reconstruction Unit, and Forensic Identification Unit are working in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Board to determine the cause of the crash.”