The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, has removed from these two platforms the accounts of the influential US anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense (CDH), led by Robert Kennedy Jr, the nephew of former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
CDH, which criticizes the safety of vaccines against Covid-19, accuses Meta of not respecting its right to freedom of expression, aligning itself with US health authorities.
Facebook wants to “silence all criticism”
“Facebook is acting here as a proxy for the federal government’s crusade to silence any criticism of the government’s draconian policies,” the organization’s founder and leading figure in the US anti-vaccine galaxy, Robert Kennedy Jr, said in a statement. .
CDH claims to have “hundreds of thousands” of subscribers to these two accounts and shared, in its press release, screenshots showing the removal of these accounts for “disinformation.” According to the CHR, the ban could be linked to a lawsuit filed by the organization against Meta, for censorship, in a federal court. The HRC’s YouTube channel was taken down last September.
Meta, which is regularly criticized for spreading disinformation, has been trying since the last US presidential election to move away from political content to focus on exchanges between family members and communities of interest.
Source: BFM TV
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