Is Steve Kirsch left or right?
Kirsch is a tech entrepreneur turned full-time vaccine-safety activist: he founded the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation in October 2021 and argues, including in appearances before state legislators, that childhood vaccines broadly cause harm, positions mainstream health agencies and fact-checkers dispute. Before COVID he was a noted contributor to Democratic Party funds; in 2020 he founded the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund to back mainstream research, then broke with its scientific advisers in 2021 as he shifted to vaccine-skeptic activism. Today his politics are essentially single-issue medical-freedom advocacy that aligns him with RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again wing of the Trump-era right, and he publishes primarily through a large Substack and X following. He remains active through VSRF programming and commentary opposing vaccine mandates.
How credible is Steve Kirsch's audience?
Steve Kirsch scores 22.0 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #159 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.