Naomi Wolf

Naomi Rebekah Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Yale University in 1984 with a BA in English literature and was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford from 1985 to 1987. Her 1991 book 'The Beauty Myth' made her a prominent voice in the third wave of the feminist movement; she subsequently served as a political adviser to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the 1990s.

Signs of sloppy scholarship emerged early: 'The Beauty Myth' infamously claimed 150,000 American women died from anorexia annually, a figure later shown to be exaggerated several hundred-fold. In 2019, her book 'Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love' — based on her Oxford DPhil thesis — was recalled from US bookstores after a BBC radio interview revealed that she had fundamentally misread 19th-century legal documents: the phrase 'death recorded' did not mean 'executed,' as she had claimed. The US publisher recalled all copies.

Around 2014, journalists began describing Wolf as a conspiracy theorist as she promoted dubious claims about ISIS beheadings, the Ebola epidemic, and Edward Snowden. This pattern accelerated dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wolf became one of the most vocal opponents of vaccine rollouts, making the claim that vaccines were 'software platforms,' caused female infertility, constituted 'mass murder,' and that those who assisted the rollout were comparable to Nazi doctors.

In June 2021, Twitter permanently suspended Wolf's account for posting anti-vaccine misinformation. In 2023, UK media regulator Ofcom found that GB News had breached broadcasting standards by airing Wolf's COVID-19 vaccine claims without appropriate challenge. Wolf has continued her anti-vaccine activism through her DailyClout platform, through books, and on Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), where her account was reinstated.

“COVID-19 vaccines are a 'software platform that can receive uploads' and represent a system of surveillance and control.”

mRNA vaccines contain messenger RNA and lipid nanoparticles; they contain no software, transmitters, or digital components. This claim combines a misunderstanding of mRNA technology with 5G and microchip conspiracy theories. It has no basis in biology, chemistry, or physics.

“COVID-19 vaccines cause female infertility and miscarriage at alarming rates.”

Multiple large-scale studies, including one covering hundreds of thousands of pregnant people, found no increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, or fertility impairment following COVID-19 vaccination. Wolf was instrumental in amplifying and spreading this false claim in April 2021.

“The COVID vaccine rollout constitutes 'mass murder' and those who assisted it are comparable to Nazi physicians.”

This inflammatory and false comparison has no factual basis and trivializes the Holocaust. The COVID vaccines have been estimated to have saved hundreds of thousands to millions of lives globally. These statements were cited in a UK Ofcom ruling finding GB News in breach of broadcasting standards.