RFK Jr. Loses Bid to Force YouTube to Re-Post Anti-Vax Videos

Google LLC and YouTube LLC won’t be required to immediately restore videos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioning the safety of Covid-19 vaccines to their platform because he’s unlikely to succeed on the merits of his free speech claims against the companies, a federal trial court said.

Kennedy, who is seeking to be the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee, alleges that Google’s subsidiary YouTube violated his First Amendment right to political speech when it took down the videos due to its medical and vaccine misinformation policies.

The suit is likely to fail because Google and YouTube aren’t state actors subject ...