The U.S. Supreme Court denied a lawsuit by Children's Health Defense against Meta Platforms and the Poynter Institute. Founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children's Health Defense claimed PolitiFact falsely assessed the flu vaccine's link to coronavirus. The lawsuit included accusations of PolitiFact interfering with Children's Health Defense's content on Facebook and collaborating with government entities to censor vaccine-related speech. A district court dismissed the complaint in 2021, and the Supreme Court's refusal to review the case signals a conclusion to the litigation.
The lawsuit alleged that PolitiFact interfered with Children's Health Defense's display of an article on its Facebook page, and that PolitiFact collaborated with Facebook and government entities to suppress vaccine safety speech.
Mark R. Caramanica, the lawyer who represented Poynter, stated that at no point did any court find any of CHD's legal attacks on Poynter's fact-checking journalism meritorious.
Children's Health Defense accused PolitiFact of wrongly determining that another website's claim about the flu vaccine and coronavirus was false.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a lawsuit filed against Meta and the Poynter Institute by Children's Health Defense, putting the litigation odyssey to rest.
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