A federal judge in Denver has blocked a new state law that’s intended to warn young users about the dangers of too much time on social media, ruling that requiring tech companies to display the warnings on their apps likely violates the First Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez’s ruling Thursday is a win for a coalition of tech companies that sued in August to block the enactment of 2024’s House Bill 1136 . He granted a preliminary injunction against the measure, which would require those companies to display warning labels to minors about the potential impacts to the youths’ brains and health — a provision that the companies argued was compelled speech.

Martinez agreed, writing that requiring the companies to display warning pop-ups appeared likely to violate

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