RFK Jr.’s anti-vax group, Children's Health Defense, is active on the far-right platform Gab and is cozying up to white supremacists.
Media Matters notes that the CHD subscribes to Gab Pro, and has posted to the site over 1,500 times since Jan. 2021. The Anti-Defamation League has labeled Gab as a “haven for extremists, conspiracy theorists and misinformation.” The platform’s CEO, Andrew Torba, is openly antisemitic and has said American Christians are “done being controlled” in “our own country” by the “two-percent minority,” meaning Jewish people.and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Media Matters highlighted several other examples of the group appealing to white supremacists on Gab, including how the group slid into the replies of Rob Colbert, a former executive for the platform who has made several bigoted posts. “I don’t have any questions about why my ancestors kept these retarded man-like creatures locked in sheds with metal collars on their necks that had bells on them,” Colbert wrote in March, added a hashtag with the N-word.
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