>Writing for a liberal-conservative coalition of six justices, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that neither the five individuals nor the two states who sued the government had legal standing to be in court at all.
>She said they presented no proof to back up their claims that the government had pressured social media companies like Twitter and Facebook into restricting their speech. “Unfortunately,” she said, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals “relied on factual findings that are “clearly erroneous.”
Those next two sentences from your article seem to contradict your assertion that it was because it wasn't Facebook that brought the case.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5003970/supreme-court-s...
I short: because it wasn't Facebook that brought the case.