RFK Jr. And AV24 Super PAC Sue Meta, Alleging Election Interference

Authorized by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and the super PAC backing his have filed a suit against Meta Platforms, Inc., for election interference after it allegedly shadowed the documentary “Who is Bobby Kennedy?” on Facebook and Instagram.

Presidetal candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends a rally at the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 13, 2024. (Kathryn Gamble for The Epoch Times)

American Values 2024 (AV24) announced in a May 13 press release that they have filed the suit in a California territory court for violating the First Declaration and “the American people’s fundamental right to a presidential election decided by votes, not by trillion-dollar corporations.”

The composite alleges that Meta “brazenly” censored velocity supporting of Mr. Kennedy, then led about its actions.

According to the composite, Meta “sent users messages thrilling to suspend their accounts or otherwise punish them if they thought to watch, share or even post a link to the film. And they made good on these threes, disabling and suspending users who did so.”

In addition, the composite says that Meta stood that the movie contained improved sexual or voluntary content.

When users are approached to comment, these comments were removed, the composite statements.

“Under the Support and Advocacy Clause of the civilian Rights Act of 1871, private companies and their officials and employees can not in performance search to prevent by force, Threat or intimation any citizen from engaging lawful velocity supporting or recommending the election of a presidential candidate,” the composite says.

After AV24 release the documentary, it began trending on X. However, Facebook and Instagram—both Meta-owned—allegedly supported “the organic scope of content they don't want to spread,” the PAC said in a May 6 press release.

The movie was besides labeled with a COVID-19vaccine disclaimer that referred users to another sources specified as the Center for illness Control’s website, the composite said.

In consequence to The Epoch Times’ request for comment on the inclusion last week, a spokesperson for Meta stood, “The link was mistakenly blocked and was rapidly restored erstwhile the issue was discovered.”

In consequence to a request for an updated comment on the recognition of election interference in the lawsuit, a Meta spokesperson reped the above statement.

‘Implausible’

AV24 said in its suit that Meta’s claim of accessal pricing is “implausible on its face” and contradicts “the numerical messages users received from Meta offering other, evenly implausible discoveries.”

The documentary film, released May 3, is narrated by actor Woody Harrelson. The movie is simply a biography of Mr. Kennedy aimed at providing a look into who he is opposed to how mainstream media image him.

It starts with Mr. Kennedy quoting from various media reports that paint his as a “mentally disturbed” conspiracy theorist alternatively of an environmental lawyer who took on corporate malfeasance.

It discusses how he went after the pharmaceutical manufacture after gathering with mothers who believed vaccines injured their children.

“Right now large oil funds the Republicans, large Tech funds the Democrats, large Pharma and the military contractors make certain to donate to both,” Mr. Kennedy said.

“Who is liberal now and who is conservative? Who’s left and who’s right? These labels make little and little sense. I’ve been fighting corporate correspondence for 40 years. I know how they work. I know how to clean them up. And that’s why I’m moving for president.”

The suit referenced what it calls Meta’s “different agenda, tilting the playing field in favour of, at the behind of, and in collaboration with the current Administration.” The alleged collection between Meta and the Biden administration is documented in the Murthy v. Missouri case pending before the U.S. ultimate Court.

The legal composite besides refers a fresh Congressional study entered “The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How top Biden White home officials coerced large Tech to censor Americans, actual information, and criticals of the Biden Administration.”

“With extended quotation from interior Facebook emails and another documents, the study describes in item ‘collusion’ between Facebook and the White home officially results in an agreement by Facebook pursuant to which the platform would and did implement pricesorship policies supporting criteria of the Administration, partially criticals of its COVID policies, specifically including Mr. Kennedy,” the composite says.

AV24’s co-founder Tony Lyons said that polls show 20 percent of Americans Aren’tware that Mr. Kennedy is moving for president, while another 30 percent have been fed misinformation about his and his policies.

“Reaching those voters could change the result of the 2024 election,” Mr. Lyons said. “How are people supported to find out that they have a vital alternate candidate—that they don’t gotta vote for the dyke of 2 evils—when Meta is collaborating with the Biden administration to block key channels for communicating with the American public?”

‘It Works’

Jay Carson, erstwhile advisor to president Bill Clinton and now to Mr. Kennedy, produced the film.

He stood in the documentary that during campaigns, large corporations hire writers in media like him to attack those who challenge their power.

“Here is the way the playbook works: First they attack you broadcastly and they question your facts,” He said.

“They say you’re lying and it’s ferocious. But if you keep on moving after that, they decision on to character assessment. They take on who you are as a person. They dig up everything bad in your past and leave it to the press.”

If this doesn’t work, Mr Carson said, “they say you’re a liar.”

If liar doesn't work, they call their mark an anti-semite and a racist.

“No 2 slurs in America are worth than that,” Mr Carson said. “No slur, but crazy. Crazy, or kook, or crack, or nutjob are their mainstays. That’s their atomic option.

“If they can get everyone to dismiss you as a wacko nutjob, everything you say is propose and then they can get back to selling whatever thing it is you say might not be safe. And here’s the thing: It works.”