Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent running for president, now wins more than 7 percent of the vote in a tight race, according to polls.

Last week he took personal aim at President Biden.

“I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy [than former President Donald Trump," Kennedy said. To justify this claim, he said that Biden had "used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.”

Kennedy blames the Biden administration because his Instagram account was suspended three years ago “for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” according to Facebook. His account was reinstated when he started his run for the White House.

Vaccines and Biden aren’t the only targets of RFK’s conspiracy-mongering. Kennedy has at various times claimed that wifi causes cancer and that antidepressants cause school shootings. He has even claimed that chemicals in drinking water might be turning children transgender. This comes after he had promoted for decades the debunked idea of a link between routine childhood vaccinations and autism.

There is a pattern here.

Baseless conspiracy theories spread on the internet built Kennedy's following, and they are now the basis of his presidential campaign.

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