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 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl.
Shanahan, who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has donated closely to Democratic candidates up to now. Within the marketing campaign announcement speech, Kennedy referred to as his operating mate “exactly the right person,” as somebody who “shared my passion for wholesome healthy foods, chemical-free for regenerative agriculture, for good soils.” He referred to as her a “technologist at the forefront of AI” who makes use of “neural nets” to “identify abuses in our government.” He additionally praised her use of “cutting-edge technologies, including AI, to calculate the catastrophic health consequences of toxins in our soil, our air, our water, and our food.”
In her personal follow-up speech, Shanahan referred to as Kennedy “the only anti-war candidate today.”
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.