{"id":552485,"date":"2021-06-04T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552485"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:36:07","slug":"democrat-head-of-floridas-pandemic-response-rips-rebekah-jones-disinformation-campaign-against-ron-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-head-of-floridas-pandemic-response-rips-rebekah-jones-disinformation-campaign-against-ron-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Head Of Florida\u2019s Pandemic Response Rips Rebekah Jones\u2019 \u2018Disinformation Campaign\u2019 Against Ron DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-head-of-floridas-pandemic-response-rips-rebekah-jones-disinformation-campaign-against-ron-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jared-Moskowitz.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Jared Moskowitz, who led Florida\u2019s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ripped former Florida health department worker Rebekah Jones for \u201crunning a disinformation campaign\u201d about Florida\u2019s pandemic response.<\/p>\n<p>The former director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management blasted Jones after she shared screenshots of private messages between herself and Moskowitz with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article251838913.html\">The Miami Herald<\/a> in an attempt to embarrass the former Florida official. The messages are largely congenial, but Moskowitz claimed that he was keeping Jones close to limit the false and damaging information she was spreading to her sizable following.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a platform of 400,000 Twitter followers, her reputation for bullying people on social media and her running a disinformation campaign that the national media echoed, she was more dangerous as an enemy than a friend,\u201d Moskowitz told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2021\/06\/04\/democrat-who-ran-floridas-pandemic-response-blasts-rebekah-jones-for-running-a-disinformation-campaign-1385039\">Politico<\/a>. \u201cEverything she did was disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had a dedicated following \u2014 and whether it was fact or fiction \u2014 treated everything she said as if it were in the Old Testament,\u201d he added. He likened his friendly messages with Jones to \u201ckeeping a fish on the hook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moskowitz added that Jones\u2019 attacks on Florida\u2019s response and GOP Governor Ron DeSantis have backfired. Jones\u2019 claims of misconduct and data tampering have consistently been found unsubstantiated or contradicted by official data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no doubt this was an effort to harm the governor,\u201d Moskowitz said of Jones\u2019 campaign. \u201cBut what they\u2019ve done is the opposite: give him a national platform and attention that made him a political juggernaut in his party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones was fired from her job working for the Florida Department of Health as a COVID dashboard designer last year. She claimed that she was ordered to change data on the dashboard in an effort to cover up the impact of the pandemic on Florida. Florida officials denied Jones assertions, saying she was fired for insubordination.<\/p>\n<p>Jones had a different take on the Moskowitz messages, telling Politico that Moskowitz was an \u201cexcellent resource for combating the conspiracy theories being spread by Ron DeSantis and his administration, whom he characterized as \u2018Conspiracy Frat Bro\u2019 and \u2018relentless\u2019 in our conversations.\u201d Moskowitz denied ever referring to DeSantis in those terms and pointed out that they did not appear in any of the messages Jones shared with the media.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rebekah-jones-fired-florida-data-scientist-charged-with-felony-over-unauthorized-emergency-message\">indicted<\/a> in January for allegedly hacking into the Florida emergency message system in December and sending a message to Floridians that read: \u201cSpeak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don\u2019t have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it\u2019s too late.\u201d She has been charged with a felony that carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/27\/fired-florida-data-scientist-axed-by-fsu-years-ago-had-affair-with-student\/\">entangled<\/a> in misdemeanor charges related to her tenure as a professor at Florida State University for allegedly stalking a student she had an affair with. Garrett Sweeterman, who was 21 at the time, was granted a restraining order against Jones after she allegedly created a \u201crevenge porn\u201d website and published online a 342-page manifesto detailing their relationship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-wanted-to-believe-florida-was-fudging-covid-19-data-but-the-story-is-a-fraud\">Media Wanted To Believe Florida Was Fudging COVID-19 Data, But The Story Is A Fraud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Moskowitz, who led Florida\u2019s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ripped former Florida health department worker Rebekah Jones for \u201crunning a disinformation campaign\u201d about Florida\u2019s pandemic response.The former director &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279221,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jared-Moskowitz.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Head Of Florida\u2019s Pandemic Response Rips Rebekah Jones\u2019 \u2018Disinformation Campaign\u2019 Against Ron DeSantis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jared-Moskowitz.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Head Of Florida\u2019s Pandemic Response Rips Rebekah Jones\u2019 \u2018Disinformation Campaign\u2019 Against Ron DeSantis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}