![]() ![]() ![]() Root, who has falsely claimed that the Democratic party murdered former DNC staffer Seth Rich and that the Las Vegas massacre was carried out by ISIS, complained in a court filing that deplatforming works. Wolf, a feminist advocate and former campaign adviser to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, was joined by Wayne Allyn Root, a conspiracy theorist, conservative talk radio host, and occasional Trump rally opening act. “But this is about a more important core American value that transcends partisanship. ![]() “I don’t agree with all of the plaintiffs ideologically- just as I profoundly don’t agree with Pres Trump ideologically,” she wrote. In an email to The Daily Beast, Wolf said she remains at odds with President Trump politics but signed onto the suit out in order to challenge what she says was a need to challenge “censorship via private industry that is damaging to freedoms of speech and open civil dialogue.” In the wake of the suspension, the “multiple bestselling nonfiction” author wrote that she “has been advised that as a result of the negative news reports originating from Twitter’s ‘spokesperson,’ that her upcoming book could not go to auction.” The offending information cited by Wolf as shared by Twitter without her “consent” included her public tweets published to her over 146,000 followers. The author had “countless personal and professional relationships damaged due to ‘what she said on Twitter,’ based on the erroneous claims made by the news outlets who used information apparently shared by spokesperson.” In her complaint, Wolf’s primary objection appears more concerned with Twitter’s explanations of why it suspended her account than the suspension itself. In one instance, she claimed that Moderna’s vaccine was "not actually a vaccine but a software platform," Wolf wrote and explained that she understood "how dangerous it is to have a tech in one's body that can receive 'uploads.'" She also suggested that it was “urgent” for sewage systems to segregate "vaccinated people's urine/feces from general sewage supplies/waterways" due to an erroneous belief that they could present a health risk to drinking water.īy June, Twitter apparently had seen enough of Wolf’s colorful vaccine conspiracies and suspended her account. Wolf spent much of the pandemic sharing misinformation about COVID-19 in general and vaccines in particular. The suit comes as social media companies find themselves under new pressure to police anti-vaccine conspiracy theories as vaccine uptake has slowed and COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths have once again spiked. Trump has since asked a federal court to grant him punitive damages, reinstate his account, and declare Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grants limited immunity to social media companies for the content posted by users, unconstitutional. All three companies suspended Trump’s accounts in the wake of the January 6 insurrection. In an amended complaint filed in federal court on Wednesday, Wolf says that Twitter blew up her personal and professional life by sharing her public tweets containing bizarre vaccine misinformation to news organizations and that the suspension of her account caused her to lose “over half of her business model, investors in her business, and other sources of income.”įormer President Trump and a number of his supporters filed class-action suits against Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube alleging that the companies were not private entities but an arm of the government engaged in suppressing their First Amendment rights. The former Democratic campaign adviser, feminist advocate, and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist has signed on as a co-plaintiff in the Trump-led social media lawsuit criticized as a doomed fundraising “stunt” by legal experts. Former President Donald Trump’s legal crusade against big tech has a new ally: Naomi Wolf. ![]()
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