Cheryl Hines’ husband chooses Sergey Brin’s ex-wife as working mate

Independent presidential candidate and notable anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tapped Nicole Shanahan, a rich Silicon Valley lawyer, as his working mate. Shanahan beforehand contributed $4 million to Kennedy’s tremendous PAC, serving to to bankroll a 30-second marketing campaign advert throughout this 12 months’s Super Bowl.

Shanahan, who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has donated closely to Democratic candidates up to now. In the marketing campaign announcement speech, Kennedy known as his working mate “precisely the suitable particular person,” as somebody who “shared my ardour for healthful wholesome meals, chemical-free for regenerative agriculture, for good soils.” He known as her a “technologist on the forefront of AI” who makes use of “neural nets” to “determine abuses in our authorities.” He additionally praised her use of “cutting-edge applied sciences, together with AI, to calculate the catastrophic well being penalties of poisons in our soil, our air, our water, and our meals.”

In her personal follow-up speech, Shanahan known as Kennedy “the one anti-war candidate right this moment.”

Kennedy, who’s married to Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Cheryl Hines, has beforehand promoted vaccine misinformation, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate has cited him as one of many high spreaders of covid misinformation. In 2021, he was banned from Instagram for repeatedly sharing misinformation. The ban was lifted in 2023.