RFK Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense Sues Big Media
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense nonprofit is suing major media corporations for violating U.S. antitrust laws.
The legal filing alleges that these media giants ran afoul of the Constitution by colluding with large tech firms to censor online information. Specifically targeted are the Washington Post, the BBC, the Associated Press and Reuters.
All are part of the global “disinformation” organization Trusted News Initiative (TNI).
The BBC called the group “a unique global partnership bringing together organizations across media and technology to tackle harmful disinformation in real time.” In other words, censorship.
Tech partners in this scheme include Google, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube.
The suit, which was partnered with Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, alleges the Children’s Health Defense was “censored, banned, de-platformed, shadow banned” and otherwise prevented from freely participating in the marketplace of ideas.
The reason? TNI deemed their views and content to be “misinformation” or “disinformation.” Misinformation is defined as simply getting facts wrong, while disinformation is deemed the deliberate spreading of falsehoods with the intent to mislead.
Leftists, of course, consider themselves to be the final arbiters of truth and as such have the right to deplatform anyone they disagree with.
RFK Jr.’s organization is no stranger to being deplatformed. Facebook and Instagram suspended the group last August for what it deemed “misinformation” about COVID-19 and its vaccines.
According to a spokesperson for Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, the Children’s Health Defense account and others like it were removed “for repeatedly violating our policies.”
The candidate said at the time that “Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies.”
The case against the media companies was initially filed in January in Texas, but the plaintiffs said that they had to withdraw it and refile in Louisiana due to a clerical error in the court.
All of the original plaintiffs in the first case are back on board except for Kennedy, who is temporarily on leave as he pursues the Democratic presidential nomination. He is currently a volunteer legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense.
