Podcaster Jordan Peterson, with over 7 million subscribers, had his recent interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed from YouTube for violating what the social media giant described as a violation of its “general vaccine information policy.”
During the interview with Peterson, RFK Jr. claimed that chemicals in the water are what is turning today’s kids toward transgenderism. Both Kennedy, a Democratic candidate for President of the United States, and Peterson tweeted that YouTube had taken the interview down from their site and accused it of not only censorship but interfering with a presidential campaign.
“What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates?” Kennedy tweeted. “My conversation with [Peterson] was deleted by [YouTube].”
Kennedy thanked Twitter and Elon Musk saying, “Luckily, you can watch it on here,” he said. “Now, [YouTube] has taken upon itself to actively interfere with a presidential election campaign.”
During the interview with Peterson, Kennedy claimed that “a lot of the sexual dysphoria” America is seeing comes from exposure to chemicals in the water.
“I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated on how much of that is coming from chemical exposures,” Kennedy told Peterson. “I mean, they’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today, and many of those are endocrine disruptors. There’s atrazine throughout our water supply.”
Kennedy’s campaign told Fox News Digital that vaccines are not a major priority for Kennedy during his presidential campaign, but that he would “be happy to debate the issue with any prominent proponent of the conventional view.”
“Mr. Kennedy does not believe the attacks are coordinated. People are simply speaking out according to what they believe,” a campaign official said. … “Even so, there are troubling indications in published research of serious safety issues with vaccines in general, but especially the COVID shots. The real issue for Mr. Kennedy is regulatory capture and corporate influence over government. He is in favor of properly conducted, unbiased, transparent safety testing of all vaccines.”
A Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital that it prohibits content that alleges vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities.
“Under out general vaccine information policies, we remove false claims about currently administered vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective by local health authorities and the WHO. This includes content that falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that vaccines do no reduce transmission or contraction of disease or contains misinformation on the substances contained in the vaccines will be removed.”
Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.
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