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Kennedy Jr., CHD, Sue Facebook, Zuckerberg and 3 Facebook ‘Fact-Checkers’

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The Children’s Health Defense legal team, led by Robert Kennedy Jr., is suing Facebook, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and three of their fact-checkers.

CHD filed the lawsuit August 17, 2020, charging them with “censoring truthful public health posts and for fraudulently misrepresenting and defaming CHD.” The complaint alleges that Facebook’s alliances with Big Pharma and public health agencies like the CDC, and its connections to Big Industry all influence the so-called “fact-checking” done by the fact-checkers Facebook hires.

The three fact-checkers include The Poynter Institute, which bills itself as a “global leader in journalism” that believes that a free press is essential; PolitiFact, a branch of The Poynter Institute that says fact-checking journalism is its “heart;” and Science Feedback, a French organization that claims it verifies the “credibility” of “influential” science claims in the media. One to 20 other unnamed “Does” are included in the suit.

The lawsuit also claims that “Facebook acknowledges that it coordinates its censorship campaign with the WHO and the CDC,” and that this censorship constitutes a violation of the First Amendment. The lawsuit also accuses Democratic Congressman and Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, of initiating and supporting the suppression of free thought and ideas.

SOURCES:

Children’sHealth Defense August 18, 2020

Children’s Health Defense v. Facebook, et al, August 17, 2020

Poynter, About, 2020

PolitiFact, Our Process, 2020

Science Feedback, About, 2020