Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation "All the Time"

Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign hosted an online panel Wednesday on the future of AI moderated, for some reason, by Ian Carroll, a self-styled journalist with a history of antisemitic statements. In the course of the conversation, Kennedy admitted that he "gets manipulated by AI all the time." "Somebody will send me something and I'll go'Holy cow, did you see this?'," he said, describing how he credulously forwards fake content to his children, only for them to have to correct him. RFK Jr. said he regularly "gets manipulated by AI." While Carroll has no particular public profile on AI, his persona tracks with the campaign's focus on tech figures and influencers as it courts a young, male, and extremely online audience.