representatives Anna Eshoo, Brett Guthrie, and Billy Long. Kennedy, a central figure in what’s known as the “Disinformation Dozen,” was name-checked by U.S. At a March 25 House congressional hearing titled “Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation,” CEOs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, and Sundar Pichai of Google appeared as witnesses, fielding questions from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on such topics as “censorship,” fact-checking policies, and targeted advertisements. In recent years, Kennedy has become an unlikely North Star to a network of vaccine skeptics. He made a joke about why he did so (“Well, I’m susceptible to flattery”), highlighted his background as a lawyer, and eventually mentioned that Bill Gates is responsible for the “forced” vaccinations of millions of African children.
For over an hour, he described his work in what he calls “health advocacy,” including a well-trod story about how, in 2005, a mother showed up on his front porch on the Massachusetts Cape with a stack of medical information over a foot high, demanding that he hear her out about what she saw as a link between vaccines and her son’s autism diagnosis. There were mask-less handshakes and mask-less hugs and mask-less photo ops, and then Kennedy took the stage. The crowd went wild in the way this crowd is wont: a few with tongue-in-cheek modified sphinx poses, bowing to their guru. Kennedy Jr., California-casual in faded blue jeans and a short-sleeve button-up spangled with whales.
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