Current Events > Musk hosts Twitter event for RFK Jr.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-hosts-twitter-event-anti-vaxx-democratic-candidate-rfk-jr-2023-06-05/

Elon Musk on Monday hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful, in his second Twitter Spaces event for a 2024 White House candidate.

But unlike Republican Ron DeSantis's glitch-plagued campaign launch on Twitter in May, the live audio chat with Kennedy was broadcast without major technological problems. Their 2.5-hour conversation had an audience of over 64,000 at some points.

In April, Kennedy Jr., the son of assassinated 1968 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy, announced a long-shot bid to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kennedy Jnr. criticized social-distancing requirements and vaccine mandates. At a 2022 rally in Washington he suggested that Americans had fewer freedoms during the pandemic than Jews living in Nazi Germany. He later apologized for his remarks.

Kennedy had been banned by social media platforms for spreading misinformation about vaccines and COVID-19. He was recently reinstated by Instagram.

On Monday, he praised Twitter CEO Musk for doing away with the "censorship" of social media.

"I think if we don't protect free speech at all costs, we don't have a functioning democracy," Kennedy Jr. said during a free-wheeling conversation.

Kennedy accused social media companies of folding to pressure from the government to censor anti-establishment views. LGBTQ+ activists and other groups say they've seen a rise in threats and intolerance on Twitter since Musk took over.

Kennedy's anti-vaccine activism has earned him allies on the right. In 2017, former Republican President Donald Trump tapped him to oversee a vaccine review panel, drawing criticism from scientists who said it could legitimize unfounded skepticism.

Their 2.5-hour conversation had an audience of over 64,000 at some points.

Biggest. Conversation. Ever.

But unlike Republican Ron DeSantis's glitch-plagued campaign launch on Twitter in May, the live audio chat with Kennedy was broadcast without major technological problems. Their 2.5-hour conversation had an audience of over 64,000 at some points.

Biggest. Conversation. EVER!

He's running on talking points that have been soundly rejected by dem voters the last two elections in a row.

He has no chance.

When will JFK jr make an appearance doe

Vegy posted...

When will JFK jr make an appearance doe

Too soon.

My aunt was talking about how Musk bought Twitter due to the censorship on there.

She told me about how she had a thing taken off her page about how her "four things I don't agree with" featured a swatiska.

I told her, "there's still Holocaust survivors out there, give them the benefit of the doubt".

She then told me about how if something offends you, tough it out. Her stance is that more people need to be more brutally honest.

She forgets how offended religious people are when they feel even a slight challenge to the "authority of their deity".

What's she also forgetting, and this is important, that being brutally honest comes with a personal bias that few people can overcome the emotional nature of the act. I told as much.

Was one of the questions asking why he wasn't running Republican? Because it should be a question asked.

Elon so desperate to split the Dem vote, like DeSantis and trump and pence.

This is the reason alt right assholes tried to pretend to be for Bernie.

They thought they could split the democrats.