The Conspirituality Report
Deplatformed for Anti-Vax Content, R.F. Kennedy Jr. Predicts Apocalypse
RFK joins wave of isolated propagandists finding religion
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmental activist-turned anti-vax propagandist, lost his Instagram and Facebook accounts in February. According to a report put out by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Kennedy’s 2021 deplatforming came after 2020 saw his accounts gain almost a million followers. He has retained his Twitter influence on over 260K followers. The CCDH estimates his yearly revenue from disinformation, pre-deplatforming, at almost 3M.
In September, Kennedy will give a keynote at a conference at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles. The church has seen its pandemic attendance skyrocket as it has defied California COVID restrictions. The conference is focused on braiding one of Kennedy’s core disinformation topics, the false relationship between vaccines and autism, with COVID contrarianism.
Billing for the event conflates the two issues, stating that both autism and COVID-19 are “medical, treatable, and preventable”, and that “we have been in a war since 1986: COVID-19 is the wakeup call.”
