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Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr said he believes President Joe Biden poses a larger threat to democracy than former president Donald Trump because the Biden administration has censored misinformation on social media platforms.
Joining Erin Burnett on CNN Monday night, Mr Kennedy argued that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment in asking social media companies to reduce misinformation, which he claims is more dangerous than Mr Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
“The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns but a president of the United States who uses the power of his office to force the social media companies, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, to open a portal and give access to that portal to the FBI, to the CIA, to the IRS, the CISA, the NIH, to censor his political …