Författare stängs av från Twitter efter vaccinkritik

Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author and journalist. Following her first book The Beauty Myth (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. Feminists including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised the work; others, including Camille Paglia, criticized it. In the 1990s, she was a political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Her later books include the bestseller The End of America in 2007 and Vagina: A New Biography. Critics have challenged the quality and accuracy of the scholarship in her books; her serious misreading of court records for Outrages (2019) led to the book's US publication being cancelled. Wolf's career in journalism has included topics such as abortion and the Occupy Wall Street movement in articles for media outlets such as The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian and The Huffington Post. Since around 2014 Wolf has regularly been described as being a conspiracy theorist. She has received criticism for promoting misinformation on several topics, such as beheadings carried out by ISIL, Edward Snowden and the Western African Ebola virus epidemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wolf has objected to the lockdowns, and has also frequently spread misinformation relating to COVID-19 vaccines. In June 2021, Wolf had her account suspended from Twitter, a platform that she had used to promote such material.