Founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children’s Health Defense is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood health epidemics by revealing causes, eliminating harmful exposures, seeking justice for those injured, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harms. CHD, an outspoken critic of the proliferation of childhood vaccines, seeks to inform the public about vaccines and the health dangers posed by vaccines and wireless technologies. CHD’s mission has brought it in conflict with the pharmaceutical industry, which obtains huge profits from the sale of vaccines; the United State government, which accepts millions of dollars in funding from the pharmaceutical industry; and big-tech internet companies that profit from expanded wireless technologies. Crucial to CHD’s mission of educating the public is its use of social media, including Facebook, to provide links to studies and information by experts on public health which expose the dangers of vaccines.
However, since 2019, Facebook has waged a campaign to discredit CHD: repeatedly posting labels and overlays on CHD’s Facebook page, labeling information as “false,” preventing persons visiting CHD’s Facebook page from making donations to CHD, and otherwise asserting that CHD violated Facebook’s terms of service by posting false information. In August 2020, CHD filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta’s retaliatory actions violated the First Amendment’s guarantee to freedom of speech. The lawsuit alleged that Meta acted at the behest of and in concert with the U.S government to suppress “vaccine misinformation.” The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted Facebook’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was affirmed on appeal by the Ninth Circuit.
Affiliate attorney Julie Esposito, Esq., helped advance the arguments in the amicus brief in Children’s Health Defense v. Meta.
The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization, defends individuals whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated and educates the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting their freedoms.
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