{"id":1951979,"date":"2023-06-20T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-removes-rfk-jr-interview-for-vaccine-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T14:41:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:41:54","slug":"youtube-removes-rfk-jr-interview-for-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-removes-rfk-jr-interview-for-vaccine-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube deletes RFK Jr. interview due to vaccine &#8216;misinformation&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoutube-removes-rfk-jr-interview-for-vaccine-misinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0620\/a978868c-d5c3-49e1-83ad-7a7fe45e9cc1\/audio.mp3?length=7037325&#038;duration=586\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A recent interview featuring presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was deleted by YouTube for allegedly promoting vaccine &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy appeared on the June 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBPpod\/status\/1665740841090965505\">episode<\/a> of the &#8220;Jordan B. Peterson Podcast&#8221; to discuss an array of topics, including his campaign, vaccines, the environment, and gender dysphoria. Weeks later, he discovered that the episode had been removed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think &#8230; Should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-cries-foul-as-youtube-removes-interview-for-vaccine-misinformation\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. upset as YouTube deletes vaccine interview for 'misinformation'.\">social media platforms censor presidential candidates<\/a>? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube,&#8221; the Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1670445104564252674\">posted<\/a> on Twitter on June 18.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What do you think &#8230; Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JordanBPeterson<\/a> was deleted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a>. Luckily you can watch it here on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a> (thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a>).<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kennedy24?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kennedy24<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PJFKWH6zmd\">https:\/\/t.co\/PJFKWH6zmd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1670445104564252674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In an emailed statement, a YouTube spokesperson clarified that the interview had violated the platform&#8217;s vaccine misinformation policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel for violating YouTube&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-removes-rfk-jr-interview-for-vaccine-misinformation\/\" title=\"YouTube deletes RFK Jr. interview due to vaccine 'misinformation'.\">general vaccine misinformation policy<\/a>, which prohibits content that alleges that vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that YouTube&#8217;s Community Guidelines &#8220;apply equally to all creators on our platform, regardless of political viewpoint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company did not respond to a request for further details as to which statements violated the cited policy, but according to Kennedy&#8217;s campaign, no such violation took place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The passage in question did not make direct claims about vaccines per se; it was a conversation about the vaccine conversation,&#8221; his campaign told The Epoch Times in an email. &#8220;YouTube has made the entire topic verboten\u2014at least when it is broached by people who do not share the orthodox viewpoint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>YouTube is not the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-issues-new-demands-convict-trump-investigate-military-dont-compare-captiol-attack-to-riot-marred-freedom-summer\/\" title=\"BLM Issues New Demands: \u2018Convict\u2019 Trump, Investigate Military, Don\u2019t Compare Captiol Attack To Riot-Marred \u2018Freedom Summer\u2019\">digital media platform<\/a> to censor Kennedy, an outspoken skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines. Until as recently as June 4, he was banned from Instagram, and he remains banned from TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Decrying the latest attempt to silence his views as election interference, the candidate asked his followers on Twitter: &#8220;Do you really need Big Tech censors to decide what you should hear? Or would you prefer to be treated as a competent adult who can listen to various viewpoints and come to his or her own conclusions?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also urged his supporters to voice their opinions of his de-platforming on YouTube. &#8220;That&#8217;s democracy in action!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Vaccine Comments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For years, Kennedy has been a well-known skeptic of the safety of vaccines in general. But amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he became a leading voice among those who were wary of the potential side effects of the jabs.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Peterson asked Kennedy for his perspective on why Democrats, who had traditionally opposed the pharmaceutical industry, abandoned that long-held skepticism during the pandemic to push vaccines on the public.<\/p>\n<p>Tracing the party&#8217;s general shift toward the pharmaceutical industry back to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Kennedy said attitudes on vaccines really began to change during former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During his campaign, on several occasions, he mentioned that he believed that vaccines were causing autism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And this was completely anecdotal to him. He had three friends who were women who were mothers whose children had been completely healthy and had &#8230; lost their language, and had regressed into stereotypical behavior associated with autism after receiving MMR [measles, mumps, rubella] vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because Trump took that stance, Kennedy said leading Democrats felt forced to align themselves with the opposite position, making vaccine support a &#8220;tribal issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you thought vaccines caused autism, it made you a Republican, and if you thought they definitely did not and that&#8217;s been proven beyond any doubt, you were a Democrat. And there was no in-between, there was no dialogue, there was no room for dissent or debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat also recounted two instances where news stories he was involved with that reflected negatively on vaccines were killed by leadership at major news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>In the latter case, he said he had worked for weeks with Jake Tapper, now an anchor at CNN, to develop a documentary for ABC on a secret meeting between 75 vaccine manufacturers about &#8220;how to hide from the American public the links between autism and vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while Tapper was reportedly excited about the project, upper management was not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The night before the piece was supposed to run, he called me up and said, &#8216;The piece just got killed by corporate. All my career, I have never had a piece killed by corporate and I&#8217;m so mad.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said he tried to reach Tapper again the next day but the reporter &#8220;went dark&#8221; and he hasn&#8217;t heard from him since.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>&#8216;Soup of Toxic Chemicals&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Another taboo topic Kennedy touched on with Peterson was gender dysphoria\u2014a subject that arose in response to Peterson&#8217;s claim that climate alarmism was taking a toll on children&#8217;s mental health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The apocalyptic climate narrative [that] we&#8217;re destroying the planet and doom is nigh has demoralized young people to a degree that&#8217;s almost incomprehensible,&#8221; Peterson said, linking that narrative to rising rates of depression and anxiety among young people.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, a long-time environmentalist, said he believed there was no single cause for those rates.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added, &#8220;I think a lot of the problems we see in kids\u2014and particularly boys\u2014it&#8217;s probably under-appreciated how much of that is coming from chemicals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a presidential contender, was removed for supposedly spreading vaccine &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; Kennedy discussed his campaign, vaccines, the environment, and gender dysphoria on the &#8220;Jordan B. Peterson Podcast&#8221; on June 5. 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