Unbiased presidential candidate and distinguished anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named Nicole Shanahan, a rich Silicon Valley lawyer, as his operating mate. Shanahan beforehand contributed $4 million to Kennedy’s political motion committee, which helped fund a 30-second marketing campaign advert throughout this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl.
Shanahan, who was beforehand married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has donated closely to Democratic candidates previously. In his marketing campaign announcement speech, Kennedy described his operating mate as “an ideal match,” as somebody who “shares my ardour for healthful, healthful, chemical-free meals for regenerative agriculture and for good soil.” He described her as a “technologist on the forefront of synthetic intelligence” who makes use of “neural networks” to “determine abuses in our authorities.” He additionally praised its use of “cutting-edge applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, to calculate the catastrophic well being penalties of poisons in our soil, air, water and meals.”
In her follow-up speech, Shanahan referred to as Kennedy “the one anti-war candidate at present.”
Kennedy, who’s married to Curb your enthusiasm Actor Cheryl Hines has beforehand promoted misinformation about vaccines and has been cited by the Heart for Countering Digital Hate as one of many high spreaders of coronavirus-related misinformation. In 2021, he was banned from Instagram for repeatedly sharing deceptive data. The ban was lifted in 2023.