Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to call social media companies Meta Platforms and Elon Musk’s X by their formal names in a Wednesday opinion footnote, instead opting for their known names: Facebook and Twitter.

The Trump-appointed justice reasoned her changes were for the “sake of clarity” in her leading opinion on a 6-3 Supreme Court decision in favor of the Biden administration against several Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts.

X owner Elon Musk changed the company’s name in July 2023, months after he acquired the social media organization in October 2022. Musk said he decided to change the name because he thought Twitter no longer represented what the platform could do.

“The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140 character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video,” he said in a post. “In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.”

But X is still better known as Twitter, probably given that it’s easier to identify.

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Barrett also used Facebook, instead of Meta because it’s also more recognizable among the public. Facebook changed to Meta because its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, reasoned the company had acquired many other media applications such as WhatsApp, and does not contain just Facebook.

Justices have let the public know they write opinions for their consumption, not strictly legal counsel and those in the know, which reinforces why Barrett referred to X as Twitter and Meta Platforms as Facebook, both more commonly known names.