Independent governmental prospect and noteworthy anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has actually tapped Nicole Shanahan, a rich Silicon Valley legal representative, as his running mate. Shanahan formerly contributed $4 million to Kennedy’s very PAC, assisting to bankroll a 30-second project advertisement throughout this year’s Super Bowl.
Shanahan, who was previously wed to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has actually contributed greatly to Democratic prospects in the past. In the project statement speech, Kennedy called his running mate “precisely the best individual,” as somebody who “shared my enthusiasm for wholesome healthy foods, chemical-free for regenerative farming, for great soils.” He called her a “technologist at the leading edge of AI” who utilizes “neural webs” to “determine abuses in our federal government.” He likewise applauded her usage of “advanced innovations, consisting of AI, to compute the disastrous health repercussions of toxic substances in our soil, our air, our water, and our food.”
In her own follow-up speech, Shanahan called Kennedy “the only anti-war prospect today.”
Kennedy, who is wed to Suppress Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines, has actually formerly promoted vaccine false information, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate has actually mentioned him as one of the leading spreaders of covid false information. In 2021, he was prohibited from Instagram for consistently sharing false information. The restriction was raised in 2023.
