From The New York Times:
Instagram took down the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent anti-vaccine activist, on Wednesday over false information related to the coronavirus.
“We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” Facebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement. Mr. Kennedy, the son of the former senator and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, worked for decades as an environmental lawyer but is now better known as an anti-vaccine crusader. A 2019 study found that two groups including his nonprofit, now called Children’s Health Defense, had funded more than half of Facebook advertisements spreading misinformation about vaccines. He has found an even broader audience during the pandemic on platforms like Instagram, where he had 800,000 followers.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Kennedy couldn’t immediately be reached for comment late Wednesday. His Twitter account, which has some 214,000 followers and where he also frequently criticizes vaccines, also remained up as of Wednesday night.
Facebook earlier this week said it was stepping up efforts to remove false statements related to Covid-19, Covid vaccines, and vaccines in general on both its flagship platform and Instagram. The company said a longer list of claims deemed false by leading health authorities—including that vaccines are ineffective and more dangerous than contracting the targeted disease—would be subject to removal.
From the London Independent:
More recently, he had falsely linked the death of legendary baseball player, Hank Aaron, to the coronavirus vaccine shot. In an opinion piece published in the New York Times, his niece, Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, said, “I love my uncle. But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong.”
It was not the only time that Kennedy was chastised for his anti-vaccine activism. In May 2019, Mr Kennedy’s sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, his brother Joseph P Kennedy II, and his niece, Maeve Kennedy McKean, wrote a scathing critic of him in Politico magazine for campaigning against immunization even as the country saw a resurgence of measles, that was declared to have been eliminated in the US in 2000. “He has helped to spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines,” they said.
From Mercola [for discernment; always consult your doctor]:
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The COVID-19 vaccine really isn’t a vaccine in the medical definition of a vaccine. It’s more accurately an experimental gene therapy that could prematurely kill large amounts of the population and disable exponentially more
- Since mRNA normally rapidly degrades, it must be complexed with lipids or polymers. COVID-19 vaccines use PEGylated lipid nanoparticles, and PEG is known to cause anaphylaxis
- Free mRNA can signal danger to your immune system and drive inflammatory diseases. As such, injecting synthetic thermostable mRNA (mRNA that is resistant to breaking down) is highly problematic as it can fuel chronic, long-term inflammation
- Many commonly reported side effects from the COVID-19 gene therapy “vaccines” appear to be caused by brain inflammation
- Anyone with an inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson’s disease or chronic Lyme and those with acquired immune deficiency/dysfunction from any microbial pathogen, brain trauma or environmental toxin are at high risk of dying from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.