Cheryl Hines' husband picks Sergei Brin's ex-wife as operating mate

Unbiased presidential candidate and famend anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen Nicole Shanahan, a rich Silicon Valley lawyer, as his operating mate. Shanahan beforehand contributed $4 million to Kennedy's tremendous PAC, which helped finance a 30-second marketing campaign advert throughout this yr's Tremendous Bowl.

Shanahan, who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has donated closely to Democratic candidates prior to now. Within the marketing campaign announcement speech, Kennedy known as his operating mate “completely the appropriate individual”, as somebody who “shared my ardour for regenerative agriculture, for chemical-free, good soils, for nutritious wholesome meals.” He known as her a “main technologist in AI” who makes use of “neural nets” to “determine abuses in our authorities.” He additionally praised the usage of cutting-edge applied sciences, together with AI, to “calculate the devastating well being penalties of poisons in our soil, our air, our water and our meals.”

In his personal follow-up speech, Shanahan known as Kennedy “the one anti-war candidate at present.”

Kennedy, who’s married curb Your Enthusiasm Actor Cheryl Hines has beforehand promoted vaccine misinformation, and the Heart for Countering Digital Hate has cited her as one of many worst spreaders of COVID misinformation. In 2021, he was banned from Instagram for repeatedly sharing misinformation. The ban was lifted in 2023.