The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Mississippi to enforce a state law that requires the nation’s largest social media companies to verify the age of their users and obtain parental consent for minors,

The Supreme Court has refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children.

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block Mississippi from enforcing its social media age-verification law against nine major platforms, for now. In an emergency ruling, the justices denied internet trade group NetChoice’s request to reinstate a lower court’s order protecting social media giants like Meta,