Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rebuked the Biden-Harris administration for exploiting government power to censor their political opposition.
During an announcement speech suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, RFK. Jr. addressed reporters in Arizona and directly cited Big Tech censorship as a main reason for not winning the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2024 election. Mincing no words, he blasted the federal government and the Democratic National Committee for their involvement.
“What most alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates; what alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies,” RFK Jr. said while standing before a podium with two American flags behind him.
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During his speech, RFK Jr. highlighted the damning consequences of the censorship collusion between Biden officials and social media platforms to censor constitutionally-protected, yet inconvenient free speech.
“When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it is an attack on our most sacred right of free expression, and that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest,” the now-former presidential candidate warned.
Expanding on this sentiment, RFK Jr. labeled the Democratic Party as “the party of the war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and Big Money,” referring to the largest corporations that control the pharmaceutical, social media, agriculture and financial industries.
The RFK Jr. campaign faced mounting censorship attacks from the largest social media companies in the country as reported in several MRC Free Speech American studies.
For instance, in June 2023, a Meta spokesperson cited an "error" as the reason behind the censorship of RFK Jr.'s Instagram account. The account was reinstated several weeks after RFK launched his presidential campaign. According to MRC's CensorTrack Database, RFK Jr. has been censored at least 35 times in one year.
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