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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. supported Republican-backed lawsuits against the White House over social media censorship on Tuesday, claiming President Biden also attempted to censor his social media posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two social media cases Tuesday, which claim the Biden White House illegally coerced social media companies to censor accounts because they were spreading misinformation about COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the government should be involved,\u201d Kennedy told NewsNation\u2019s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday. \u201cThe social media sites are welcome to have programs or processes or community rules with a consensus, but once the government gets involved and the First Amendment is implicated,\u201d things get out of hand, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSocial media sites ought to be able to police their sites to take off kiddie porn to take off, advocates of violence or racism or whatever,\u201d he continued. \u201cOnce the government gets involved and tells them what to do, then you know, we have a First Amendment problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy also mentioned his own lawsuit against Biden and the White House over censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The candidate\u2019s social media accounts were restricted in January 2021 after he posted misinformation claiming that baseball legend Hank Aaron died from complications of the COVID vaccine, which is not true, according to medical experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy claimed that the White House instructed social media sites to restrict his accounts, which they did. He won an injunction on the case last month, but it was stayed in order to wait for the Supreme Court cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two cases heard by the Supreme Court were brought by the states of Louisiana and Missouri. Justices appeared wary of the states\u2019 arguments in oral hearings Tuesday, with both liberal and conservative members questioning specifics of the states\u2019 arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,\u201d Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Agui\u00f1aga in arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Louisiana-based federal judge initially barred Biden administration officials from communicating with social media companies about \u201cthe removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction\u201d of content containing \u201cprotected free speech\u201d last July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed the original order in September but agreed that administration officials likely violated the First Amendment in asking social media companies to take down specific content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s unclear how the Supreme Court will ultimately decide on the issue. The lower court rulings remain paused during the appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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