Lindke v. Freed

Summary

The Court held that a public official's social‑media activity is state action for §1983 liability only if the official both possessed actual authority to speak on the State’s behalf and purported to exercise that authority in the post, and applied that test to find James Freed’s deletion and blocking of comments were private conduct. The judgment of the lower courts was vacated and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent with this test.