OAN’s Brooke Mallory
7:00 PM – Wednesday, April 3, 2023
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on Tuesday detailed his concerns about President Joe Biden’s chances of re-election, pointing to the administration’s previous efforts to manipulate social media companies, citing and detailed the potential threats to the First Amendment.
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“I could argue that President Biden is an even more serious threat to democracy because President Biden is the first candidate in history to use federal agencies to censor political speech.” Because he’s the first president in history to use this to censor his opponents,” Kennedy said.
President Kennedy also highlighted his lawsuit against the Biden administration during his appearance. news nationon CUOMO, weekday nights at 8pm ET. Kennedy alleged that the president illegally violated the First Amendment by working with Meta, Google, and Twitter to restrict social media posts and certain keywords.
Missouri and Louisiana have previously filed similar lawsuits in this regard.
“These cases show that 37 hours after President Biden was sworn into office, White House officials met with social media companies including YouTube, Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Twitter. “He was ordering the censorship of President Biden’s political opponents,” Kennedy and host Chris Cuomo said.
President Kennedy argued that the Biden administration had improperly used the power of the federal government as a weapon to force companies to restrict speech that could have a negative impact on the administration.
“The leverage that the White House had was to say that if you don’t do that, we’re going to file a trust action against you and revoke your Section 230 immunity,” he continued.
He claimed the agency ordered him to remove some of his and other users’ posts about public health and the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as posts opposing Biden’s Ukraine policy.
“it was [an] They attacked existential threats and social media companies and censored us,” he added.
Kennedy won a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration in February, stating that the Biden administration would “require social media companies to remove, delete, suppress or suppress free and protected social media content that is posted, including by changing their algorithms. “Forcing or significantly encouraging reductions” is prohibited from continuing. speech. ”
President Kennedy also said that allowing the Biden administration to control access to social media companies to eliminate political opponents would set a “dangerous precedent.”
“Once that precedent is established, the next president, whoever he is, even President Trump, will be able to seize that power and use it to censor his political opponents,” he said. continued.
President Kennedy’s attempt to join the bi-state case was rejected by the Supreme Court, which took up cases brought by Louisiana and Missouri. Moreover, despite early signs of success in the case, a majority of Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism about the case, as did individual plaintiffs who asserted their right to free speech during the proceedings.
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