Dr. Aseem Malhotra, the newly appointed chief medical advisor at the non-profit MAHA Action, highlighted HHS Secretary John F. Kennedy Jr.’s right approach to what the left labels misinformation, reminding Americans of the massive censorship Kennedy sustained in the 2024 election.
In a Wednesday appearance on The Story With Martha MacCallum, Malhotra said Kennedy’s comment that the solution to “bad speech isn't censorship, it's more speech” resonated with him deeply. Kennedy often commented while on the campaign trail, quoting the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’s comment that the remedy to incorrect information is “more speech, not enforced silence.”
Kennedy made this motto part of his presidential campaign speeches during the 2024 election cycle, initially challenging then-President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary and later running as an independent. Ultimately, he endorsed now-President Donald Trump, who appointed him as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
However, Kennedy’s road to HHS hit several bumps, including Big Tech censorship. MacCallum noted this point during her interview with Malhotra, saying: “He was censored on social media during all of COVID.”
MacCallum was spot on, with Malhotra being a target as well.
As recorded in MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack, LinkedIn removed an interview of Malhotra in 2021. In 2022, Facebook temporarily suspended his page and then fact-checked one of his posts.
MRC Free Speech America has also conducted countless studies, stories and investigations that detail the rampant censorship campaign targeting Kennedy. The censorship came from all fronts: Wikipedia, Google, Meta-owned Platforms, YouTube and even the White House, beginning amid the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing during his presidential campaign.
According to an exclusive MRC report, the Biden administration worked with a foreign engineer to create a so-called enemies list that targeted Kennedy over his opposition to funding for Ukraine.
By July 2023, social media platforms had censored Kennedy at least 10 times in just three months, according to MRC’s count. That same year, a Meta spokesperson exclusively told MRC it had banned Kennedy due to an “error, a justification frequently cited by social media companies when pressed about their censorship
In 2024, Meta cited the reason when it suppressed links to Kennedy’s documentary, Who is Bobby Kennedy? The spokesperson claimed, "The link was mistakenly blocked and was quickly restored once the issue was discovered." In response, Kennedy filed a lawsuit against Meta over this censorship.
YouTube was not to be outdone by Meta. It removed a Mike Tyson interview with Kennedy in June 2023, followed by another removal in July 2023, this time targeting James O’Keefe’s interview with him. In total, YouTube took down at least seven videos.
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