The Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit brought by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group that claimed Meta had illegally censored the organization’s social media posts.
Children’s Health Defense—which President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services chaired from 2015 to 2023—had argued that Meta’s Facebook colluded with the federal government starting in 2019 to restrict access to its anti-vaccine posts, NBC News reported.
Facebook removed the group’s page entirely in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic. For years, the organization has been one of the nation’s leading purveyors of debunked conspiracy theories claiming vaccines cause autism and neurological defects.
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