Unbiased presidential candidate and notable anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tapped Nicole Shanahan, a rich Silicon Valley lawyer, as his operating mate. Shanahan beforehand contributed $4 million to Kennedy’s tremendous PAC, serving to to bankroll a 30-second marketing campaign advert throughout this yr’s Tremendous Bowl.
Shanahan, who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has donated closely to Democratic candidates prior to now. Within the marketing campaign announcement speech, Kennedy referred to as his operating mate “precisely the suitable individual,” as somebody who “shared my ardour for healthful wholesome meals, chemical-free for regenerative agriculture, for good soils.” He referred to as her a “technologist on the forefront of AI” who makes use of “neural nets” to “establish abuses in our authorities.” He additionally praised her use of “cutting-edge applied sciences, together with AI, to calculate the catastrophic well being penalties of poisons in our soil, our air, our water, and our meals.”
In her personal follow-up speech, Shanahan referred to as Kennedy “the one anti-war candidate at the moment.”
Kennedy, who’s married to Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Cheryl Hines, has beforehand promoted vaccine misinformation, and the Middle for Countering Digital Hate has cited him as one of many high spreaders of covid misinformation. In 2021, he was banned from Instagram for repeatedly sharing misinformation. The ban was lifted in 2023.
