Naomi Wolf banned from Twitter for spreading COVID vaccine lies

Naomi Wolf has been suspended from Twitter after spreading vaccine misinformation.

The American author of The Beauty Myth had been posting a number of Tweets containing unfounded and strange theories about the COVID-19 vaccines to her 140,000 followers.

One tweet even claimed that the vaccines were a “software platform that can receive uploads”, and another said that the USA’s COVID adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, was Satan.

A more recent tweet claimed, without any scientific basis, that any urine or excrement from people who had received the jab should be separated from general sewage supplies before it exposed non-vaccinated people to the virus through drinking water.

The author’s tweets had become increasingly more bizarre in recent times leading her own family to ask her to stop. Wolf took to Twitter to complain: “I daily get texts from friends and former friends telling me to ‘stop’. One just messaged ‘you’re doing incalculable harm.'”

However, Wolf did not stop. She continued to post theories and lies about the vaccines without one jot of research. Another Twitter user tested her research capabilities by asking her to tweet a quote from a doctor, however the quote was fake and the doctor was a porn actor, Johnny Sins, but Wolf fell for it and posted it to her thousands of followers. This wasn’t the first time she has been caught out for not researching her ‘work’ properly as in 2019 the BBC exposed the premise for her new book was based on a misunderstanding due to Wolf’s complete lack of research. Wolf had cited on Twitter an article written by a known-hoaxer- A.D. Harvey- who has previously created several online personas and an entire fake community of academics.

Some are arguing that the Twitter ban infringes on her freedom of speech, but the social media platform is a private company and she has no legal right to spread dangerous lies and conspiracy theories from there.