RFK Jr. claims Fox News avoided negative vaccine stories to appease Big Pharma advertisers.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Claims Fox News Censored Negative Vaccine Content to Please Big Pharma Advertisers

“He said that any of his hosts who allowed me on TV to talk about this, that he would be forced to fire them,” Kennedy recalled. “And he said that 75 percent of his advertising revenues for the nightly news shows were at that point coming from pharma.”

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently revealed that Fox News refused to air content that portrayed vaccines in a negative light to appease its big-money advertisers in the pharmaceutical industry. During a Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk, Kennedy disclosed that he approached former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 2016 about doing a story on the mercury content in vaccines but was shut down.

Banned From Platforms

As an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccines, Kennedy has faced his fair share of being removed from platforms in recent years, with the most recent example being his campaign’s suspension from Instagram. Last week, Kennedy shared the news on Twitter, noting that his personal account was banned years ago and has not been reinstated despite his political candidacy.

“To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic,” he wrote on June 1 in a tweet. “Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square. How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?”

Musk, responding to the news, invited Kennedy to join him for a Twitter Spaces discussion. And Instagram’s loss appeared to be Twitter’s gain on June 5, as more than 56,000 people tuned in to the conversation, which featured a wider discussion of how the government and major corporations work to control the speech of Americans.

Bait and Switch

“Free speech and the free flow of information is the water, it’s the sunlight, it’s the fertilizer and soil to democracy,” Kennedy said. “Without it, democracy withers and dies.”

Noting that those who censor speech are historically viewed as “the bad guys,” the candidate stressed that he has met many Americans who feel like the democratic aspect of the U.S. government has become nothing more than a front.

“So many Americans today feel like the promise of democracy has been a bait and switch, and that we’re no longer living in a democratic system where we are actually the sovereign of our own destinies,” he said.

Money, drugs, and large corporations, he said, had turned the government into an “instrument of corporate power” that was being wielded against U.S. citizens. And the media, he contended, has been complicit in that process.

“The function of media traditionally is supposed to be the guardians of the First Amendment. They’re supposed to speak truth to power, and instead, they become propaganda vessels for the powerful, for you know, the big military-industrial complex or the pharmaceutical companies.”

Debate Controversy

While Kennedy stressed that democracy thrives best in an atmosphere of debate, his political party appears to have chosen a different route, opting…

• To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic
• Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square
• Money, drugs, and large corporations have turned the government into an “instrument of corporate power”

These are just a few of the thought-provoking statements made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his recent interview with Elon Musk. It’s clear that Kennedy is passionate about the importance of free speech and the free flow of information in a democratic society. And while he may have faced censorship and opposition from some media outlets and platforms, he remains committed to speaking truth to power and fighting for the rights of all Americans.