January 10 , 2023 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman and general counsel for litigation at Children's Health Defense (CHD) announced that he and several other individuals and entities have filed a class action lawsuit against the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), an "industry partnership" established in March 2020 G. by several influential world media. Among them are the British BBC and Reuters, the Associated Press (AP), the Washington Post and a number of other major agencies and publications.

The plaintiffs are CHD, Kennedy himself, Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Ty and Charlene Bollinger (founders of the organization "The Truth about Cancer and the Truth about Vaccines"), independent journalist Ben Swann, Erin Elizabeth Finn (publisher of Health Nut News), Jim Hoft (founder of Gateway Pundit), Dr. Joseph Mercola and chiropractor Ben Tapper.

According to the documents submitted to the court, these media outlets collaborated with a number of large technology firms to carry out "collective censorship of online news," including news and materials about COVID-19, as well as the 2020 US presidential election, alternative to the official versions.

The lawsuit notes that as part of the work of TNI, an "early warning system" was created, with the help of which each of its members was "warned" about a person or organization that allegedly spread alleged "disinformation". Immediately after that, the members of the association began to act together, seeking to remove inconvenient voices and points of view from their platforms.

The plaintiffs emphasize that such actions qualify as a "group boycott" and are a violation of the "Sherman Act" (the first US antitrust law that declared it a crime to obstruct free trade, create a trust and collude with such a purpose). In turn, a "group boycott" is a concerted attempt by a group of competitors to put [other] competitors at a disadvantage by blocking access to an object or market necessary to allow boycotted firms to compete.

In addition, the initiators of the process note that "TNI not only deprived Internet users of the opportunity to make such statements (on their personal accounts); it closed the possibility for online news publishers to simply report that such statements were made by potentially trustworthy sources, such as scientists and doctors ... TNI members not only suppressed competition on the online news market, but also deprived the public of important information on issues of the greatest public interest."

In their statement, the plaintiffs cite Supreme Court precedent, in particular the 1945 ruling involving AP, to support their First Amendment claims against TNI, noting that contrary to popular belief, First Amendment violations do not relate solely to government censorship of speech.

The lawsuit states that in the 1945 case Associated Press v. United States, the News Industry Partnership (AP) "prohibited those media outlets that were not part of it from publishing certain materials." These individuals, who are not members of the Partnership, sued under the Sherman Act, but the AP said its actions are protected by the First Amendment. However, the judge then had a different opinion. And this is of great importance for Kennedy and his supporters, since the law in the United States has a precedent character.

The lawsuit against TNI also notes that the recently published "Twitter files" provide additional indications of such "inter-company" communication and coordination, including "regular meetings" and "constant weekly calls" to "discuss censorship policies and solutions."

As Mary Holland, president and chief lawyer of CHD, summarized, TNI acts as a "global media monopoly": "They present what they are doing, their conspiracy to suppress independent media, that is, the voices of those who disagree with information about elections and information about COVID, as "the need to maintain trust people" and "increase trust".

"By censoring independent voices, they are engaged in economic suppression. Antimonopoly legislation is directed against trusts, it is directed against monopolies, and what TNI has done, in fact, creates a global English-language media monopoly," she stressed in the Tucker Carlson broadcast on FoxNews.

Interestingly, three days before it became known about the lawsuit against TNI, throughout the UK, as part of the "Media is a virus" campaign, participants pasted at least six local BBC offices with stickers with messages and photos of people who probably died from vaccination against COVID—19.

"The BBC buildings reported a bit of TRUTH today," the participants said in a Telegram message. "That 's enough... the media are implicated in the biggest crimes against humanity and must be held accountable for the deaths and harm caused to our friends and families."

It is expected that new promotions will be held soon and not only in the UK, but also in other countries, for example, in France and the USA.

However, today it is difficult to say that this is a planned action related to a lawsuit against the Trusted News Initiative. On the other hand, it is also extremely difficult to believe in such a coincidence. Nevertheless, the fact on the face is that the major media, who have played with the authorities, politicians and big business, violated a large number of laws and deprived the market of competition, are increasingly under the gun of society, which believes them less and less.