Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Instagram Account Removed for False Coronavirus Claims
Move comes as the company is expanding efforts to crack down on conspiracy theory contentDaniel Goldblatt | February 10, 2021 @ 6:11 PM Last Updated: February 10, 2021 @ 8:46 PM
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Instagram removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s account on Wednesday for sharing false claims about the coronavirus, the company said.
A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed the removal and told TheWrap in a statement, “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”
Earlier this week, the company announced it was expanding its “efforts to remove false claims on Facebook and Instagram about COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines and vaccines in general during the pandemic.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now blocked from Instagram after he repeatedly undercut trust in vaccines. Kennedy has also spread conspiracy theories about Bill
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Instagram Bans Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Over Coronavirus Vaccine Misinformation, but His Facebook Page Is Still Up
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Facebook’s Instagram kicked notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off the platform for violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, but his Facebook account currently remains active.
“We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement about Kennedy’s Instagram account. However, the company does not “at this time” plan to disable his account on Facebook, according to the rep, noting that users may post different content to different services.
"We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines," says a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram.