Overview

• Loomer’s petition to revive her racketeering claims against Meta and X was denied on Oct. 6, leaving the lower-court dismissals intact.
• Federal courts had thrown out the suit for failing to plausibly allege a RICO enterprise, with the 9th Circuit affirming that conclusion earlier this year.
• Her appeal sought to raise broader questions about platforms’ immunity for content moderation under Section 230, which the justices declined to take up.
• X, Meta, and Procter & Gamble waived their right to respond at the Supreme Court, and Justice Samuel Alito recused from consideration of the petition.
• Loomer alleged a coordinated effort by platforms, advertisers, and officials to suppress her speech during her 2020 and 2022 congressional campaigns, though her X account has since been reinstated and grown to about 1.7 million followers.