What it means for the election that the government can talk to tech companies
![A right-wing legal and political campaign has disrupted the work of government agencies meant to safeguard voting and subjected researchers studying online harms to harassment and death threats.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/7339x5504+459+0/resize/7339x5504!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2f%2Fdb%2Fd7ab73194981b14819ae80a3ba4d%2Fgettyimages-2152383941.jpg)
The case is one element in a right-wing legal and political campaign that frames efforts to respond to false and misleading information as censorship.
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