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The Department of Justice Just Sided with RFK Jr. Group's Claim That News Orgs Can't Boycott Misinformation
Jack Nicastro | 7.14.2025 4:58 PM
The Children's Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to end "childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure," submitted an antitrust complaint against The Washington Post, the BBC, the Associated Press, and Reuters in January 2023. On Friday, the Justice Department published a statement of interest in favor of the CHD, which implores the federal court hearing the case to recognize that harm to viewpoint competition is grounds for antitrust prosecution.
In the case, Children's Health Defense v. Washington Post, the CHD alleges that the defendants violated federal antitrust law through their establishment of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. The complaint claims that the TNI formed a "group boycott" to........
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