Beauty Myth author Naomi Wolf suspended from Twitter after sharing vaccine disinformation

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The 58-year-old writer with more than 140,000 followers was suspended by the social media giant on 4 June following months of questionable posts including that vaccines let you “travel back in time”. Others posted jokes that she was banned for being “too stupid” for the site or that “Twitter got vaccinated against Naomi Wolf.” A respected third wave feminist writer, in the 1990s she wrote a critically acclaimed book, The Beauty Myth, and went on to become a political adviser to President Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But around 2013 she started to become better known for promoting conspiracy theories online, including questioning whether ISIS execution videos were real and suggesting whistleblower Edward Snowden may be a government plant. In April the Pan American Health Organisation warned that misinformation was behind vaccine hesitancy and called it “one of the most serious threats to public health.” Rosie Boycott, member of The House of Lords and co-founder of Virago, Wolf’s publisher, told Business Insider shortly before the suspension: “I find her transition horrifying.