Posted on 06/08/2021 2:43:44 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Rebekah Jones‘ Twitter suspension saga took a bizarre turn late Monday night after the embattled data designer announced that she’s running for Congressman Matt Gaetz‘s seat.
Jones, a former Florida Department of Health (DOH) employee who was fired for repeatedly violating the agency’s policy about communicating with the media, made the out-of-left-field announcement on social media mere hours after she was suspended from Twitter for violating rules against “platform manipulation and spam.” Jones also placed the crosshairs on Governor Ron DeSantis, calling the Republican governor a “sociopathic liar.”
“Didn’t want to announce it this way, but since DeSantis is now taking credit for getting me suspended for sharing an article that proves he’s a sociopathic liar it looks like I have to say it this way. I’m running for Matt Geatz’ seat next year,” Jones said, misspelling the Republican’s name in a post on her Instagram page.
Rebekah Jones is the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19 disinformation and has harmed many hardworking DOH employees with her defamatory conspiracy theories,” The governor’s press secretary, Christina Pushaw, said in a statement. “I hope someone will ask Ms. Jones why she thinks she got suspended — will she allege that Governor DeSantis is somehow behind Twitter’s decision? That would be deeply ironic if she tried to spin the falsehood into her conspiracy theory, given the Governor’s stance on Big Tech.”
“Florida’s new law against partisan Big Tech censorship requires that social media companies clarify and enforce their terms of service fairly for all users, without regard to ideological or political leanings. In banning Jones for a cut-and-dry TOS breach, platform manipulation, perhaps Twitter is finally enforcing the same rules for both sides of the aisle.
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Well said.
I live in nearby FL-2 and get a lot of news from radio in Gaetz’ FL-1. He’s a rockstar almost as popular as DeSantis. If there is GOP opposition to him I suspect it will not be public.
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