Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) has successfully defended against an appeal by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. What Happened: The group had taken issue with Meta’s alleged censorship of Facebook posts that spread misinformation about the effectiveness and safety of vaccines. On Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, ruled in favor of Meta. It said that the nonprofit failed to prove that Meta was influenced or coerced by federal officials to suppress views opposing the “government orthodoxy” on va…