YouTube Still Isn’t a State Actor–RFK Jr. v. Google
Eric Goldman
AUGUST 26, 2023
In 2020, the Ninth Circuit held that YouTube was not a state actor. It still isn’t. The plaintiff here is RFK Jr., the leading presidential candidate among the #MAGA base of the Democratic party. Even his relatives have condemned him for making “deplorable and untruthful remarks” about COVID. YouTube removed three videos of his talks because they violated YouTube’s COVID-19 medical misinformation and vaccine misinformation policies.
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