A fired Florida Department of Health employee and critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ coronavirus response was slammed by a former Democratic official who accused her of “running a disinformation campaign” as she alleged the state was minimizing its caseload.
Jones had become a media darling and grew a large Twitter following after her allegations went public. Then she sent a tweet in July 2020 that claimed Moskowitz’s agency was covering up a coronavirus outbreak among its staff.
So Moskowitz said he adopted the philosophy of"keep your enemies close" – and reached out to befriend her. Once acquainted, he said, he could try to rein in what he characterized as a"disinformation campaign" and discourage her from tweeting out any falsehoods about his department’s pandemic response.Jones, at some point, leaked their private conversations to the Miami Herald, which published them Friday and reported the two formed"an unlikely alliance born from the shared passion for public service and emergency response.
"The more we talk about her the more we breathe life into her and make her important," he told Fox News, adding that he’d said enough in the Politico and Miami Herald interviews.
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