Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, slammed “sneaky” Mehta boss Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly censoring a new documentary about the independent candidate.
“Mark Zuckerberg, are you kidding me?! No matter how much mixed martial arts you do, you’re never going to look strong if you keep acting like a coward like that,” says Bay Area lawyer and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Shanahan wrote on his X account on Sunday.
Mr. Zuckerberg is the CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. In Shanahan’s post, he mentioned his continued training in mixed martial arts.
Shanahan’s post on X included a short video montage showing several users on Facebook and Instagram unable to upload a 30-minute documentary.
A Meta Platforms spokesperson told the Post that the link to the documentary was “incorrectly blocked and quickly reinstated once the issue was discovered.”
Several Facebook and Instagram users reported being unable to access the documentary over the weekend.
Mehta said the documentary was mistakenly reported as spam by some users, which is why it was blocked for several hours from late Friday afternoon until noon Saturday.
Tony Lyons, founder of American Values 2024, the super PAC that paid for the ads. told the New York Times He said his group plans to sue Mehta in federal court for violating his First Amendment rights.
“When social media companies censor presidential candidates, the public cannot know what that candidate actually believes or what policies he or she will pursue if elected,” Lyons told the Times. Ta.
“We are left with propaganda and lies from some of the most powerful and most corrupt groups and individuals.”
The 30-minute documentary is narrated by “Cheers” actor Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Jay Carson, a Hollywood screenwriter who was a close aide to Hillary Clinton.
The documentary begins with Kennedy reading press clippings about himself, in which Kennedy is described as “visibly upset,” “very insane,” and “a walking, talking conspiracy theory guy.” has been done.
Over the weekend, Kennedy supporters began posting screenshots of messages they received from Instagram and Facebook stating that they could not view the link to the ad because it violated the platforms’ terms of service.
Kennedy’s campaign then sent a fundraising email to his supporters, urging them to document their comments, which amounted to “election interference.”
Kennedy wrote on Facebook that the ad was “the Bobby Kennedy video that Facebook doesn’t want you to see.”
Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and son of the late U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, was a lifelong Democrat, but his controversial positions on vaccine effectiveness pushed him out of the party’s mainstream. It came off.
Kennedy’s candidacy risks siphoning votes from both major party candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
A recent poll by The Hill showed Mr. Biden leading Mr. Trump by 0.1 percentage point (45% to 44.9%).
When Kennedy was factored into the vote, Trump beat Biden by 1.1%, and Kennedy came in third with 8.5% of the vote.
