Podcast Co-Host Pushes Back After RFK Jr. Claims He’s ‘The Most Censored Person in the Country’
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was challenged by a co-host of the Timcast podcast after he claimed to be “the most censored person in the country.”
During an appearance on the podcast from the Libertarian National Convention this past weekend, Kennedy expressed opposition to a TikTok ban and said:
I believe in freedom of information and I think that everybody should be able to get information from any source. I don’t think we should be banning Al Jazeera, I don’t think we should be banning RT TV, I wanna hear everybody’s information, everybody’s position on all these different issues and allow me to make up my mind.
He argued, “The problem that you talked about is a universal problem. It’s not just TikTok, it’s not just China, it is Facebook, it’s Twitter, it’s YouTube, it’s all of these. It’s Google. We’re all being manipulated by algorithms that are extraordinarily powerful propaganda devices.”
“And they’re influenced by the intelligence agencies,” weighed in co-host Luke Rudkowski. “They’re banning people and they’re censoring people and they have censored you before as well for expressing your speech.”
Kennedy replied, “Of course. I’m probably the most censored person in the country.”
Co-host Hannah Claire Brimelow immediately challenged Kennedy’s claim, telling the presidential candidate, “You’re on the list. I don’t know if you’re the most censored person.”
“Well, who would be more– arguably I would say I am,” Kennedy protested, before claiming that the bulk of the Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit – which alleged that the Biden administration censored its critics – was about him.
He argued, “I was the first one that they officially started to censor, 37 hours after he took the oath of office, they were at the White House, it was directing Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, removed me from their platform. They took off my Instagram account and they were obsessed with censoring me from the beginning.”
While Instagram suspended Kennedy in 2021 for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” the ban was lifted in June 2023, and Kennedy currently has access to his accounts on Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), and YouTube.
Other controversial accounts, meanwhile, remain permanently suspended on the aforementioned platforms.
Watch above via the Timcast.
