'Rebekah Jones is the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19 disinformation and has harmed many hardworking DOH employees with her defamatory conspiracy theories,' a statement from Gov. Ron DeSantis' office said.
However, state officials said she was terminated for insubordination after being reprimanded several times for violating an agency policy about not communicating with the media.
DeSantis has previously disregarded reporters' questions regarding Jones. When asked about her at a news conference in June 2020, he told the press:"You guys have been on the conspiracy bandwagon for months. You have no evidence for it. You need to move on. You really do. It's embarrassing at this point."
Today, DeSantis' office's statement was more direct in its criticism of Jones. The statement also said,"I hope someone will ask Ms. Jones why she thinks she got suspended—will she allege that Gov. DeSantis is somehow behind Twitter's decision? That would be deeply ironic if she tried to spin that falsehood into her conspiracy theory, given the Governor's stance on Big Tech.
Twitter has not commented on the suspension of Rebekah Jones from its platform. She spoke with E.W. Scripps reporter Forrest Saunders after the action was taken against her, and she said she believed it was for the"overzealous" sharing of acontacted Twitter and DeSantis for comment but did not hear back as of press time.
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