RFK Jr. Gaining Momentum: On Eve Of Musk Twitter Space, Instagram Reverses Suspension Of Kennedy Jr.

The big tech giant Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) that owns Instagram stated that Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.'s account was reinstated after being blocked in 2021 for, according to Meta, "repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines," as per Breitbart News. 

Kennedy Jr. is running for the Democratic nomination for the White House and he reported that the social media outlet prohibited his team from setting up his presidential campaign account on the platform in violation of the company's policy of permitting user engagement with politicians. 

Kennedy Jr. had been critical of censorship in the United States and its negative effect on democracy. He stated, "Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square. How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?". 

Kennedy argued to Breitbart News that "Free speech is the fertilizer; it’s the sunlight; it’s the water for democracy...There is no time in history where the people who were censoring speech were the good guys." The Democratic presidential candidate then proceeded to ask, "What we really ought to be looking at is why? What is the cause of this blizzard and tsunami of misinformation that everybody is worried about?" and replied that "And if you look at why this is happening, it’s clear that it’s happening because people don’t trust the government anymore, and they don’t trust it because the government lies, and the media lies."

"Twenty-two percent of Americans now trust the government, and about 22 percent trust media," Kennedy elaborated. "That’s the lowest level in our history...And the reason they don’t—there’s a very good reason—is that the government and the media, the mainstream media, the corporate-owned media, they are now lying just as a matter of course. And because of that, people are looking for other sources of information. And when those other sources challenge government orthodoxies, the government’s response is to censor them or to label them as misinformation and say that they’re dangerous."

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Kennedy admitted that "you’ve got this terror, particularly on the left, that misinformation is somehow going to destroy our democracy...And it’s kind of a bait and switch because the real threat to our democracy is that our government is lying to us. And people don’t trust the institutions of our democracy anymore and with very good reason."

Meta officials appeared to agree with Kennedy Jr's assessment of their policy being violated by the continued suspension. "As he is now an active candidate for president of the United States, we have restored access to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s, Instagram account...We quickly fixed the issue that prevented the campaign Instagram account from being created," said Andy Stone, a spokesman for Instragam and Meta, to The Washington Post.