Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to show YouTube was a “state actor” when it removed his videos allegedly containing vaccine misinformation, a federal appeals court said Monday.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that denied Kennedy’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would have required Google LLC to restore his YouTube videos.
Kennedy failed to show that YouTube’s removal of at least two of his videos was at the behest of the government, the three-judge panel for the appeals court said.
“Kennedy has not rebutted Google’s claim that it exercised its independent ...
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