RFK Jr. Fails in Bid to Block Alleged White House Censorship

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to persuade a federal appeals court Monday to uphold a lower court injunction blocking White House officials from working with social media companies to remove Kennedy’s posts.

The former presidential candidate didn’t put forth proper evidence of government action suppressing his social-media content for legal standing to seek such an order, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said.

Because Kennedy’s evidence is too speculative of government involvement in the alleged censorship, he doesn’t meet the standard in the US Supreme Court’s 2024 Murthy v. Missouri laying out standing requirements in a ...