Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is back on Instagram more than two years after the platform removed his account for sharing false claims about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine.
Kennedy, 69, was first banned from Instagram in February 2021, after the platform said it had “removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” CNN reported at the time.
On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the platform had restored his personal account. “As he is now an active candidate for president of the United States, we have restored access to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Instagram account,” a spokesperson for Meta — the parent company of Instagram and Facebook — told the Post in a statement.
A separate suspension of the Instagram and Facebook accounts of Kennedy’s anti-vaccine nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, has not been lifted by the platform.
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