RFK Jr.'s Group Sues Trusted News Initiative Partners for Alleged Anti-Trust Violations

The lawsuit alleges that the coalition of major news organizations and tech platforms, aimed at combating disinformation, is suppressing certain news stories.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s group, the Children’s Health Defense, is suing partners of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) for alleged violations of federal anti-trust law, accusing them of suppressing certain news.
The TNI, founded by the BBC in 2019, is a coalition of 23 major news organizations and tech platforms, including The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, Google, Meta (Facebook), and Twitter, aimed at combating 'the most harmful disinformation'.
The TNI asserts that its mission does not affect the editorial stance of any partner organization, but critics argue that the terms 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' have been used to suppress factual stories that do not fit a certain narrative.
The TNI also promotes the idea that climate change should be central to all journalism, not just a specialist subject, a stance that has been criticized as pushing a leftist narrative.
Some of the largest and most influential U.S. news organizations, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, have so far declined to join the TNI.