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 Vaccine skeptic meets skeptical court as RFK Jr. challenges Google. Candidate said his First Amendment rights were violated when YouTube took down videos it said contained misinformation.
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 A federal trial court in California has also ruled against Kennedy, stating that Google and YouTube are not state actors and therefore not bound by the First Amendment's free speech clause. The court concluded that Kennedy is unlikely to succeed on the merits of his free speech claims against the companies