Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

Newsmax Reporter Permanently Banned From Twitter After Doubling Down With New Satanic Theory

Newsmax Reporter Permanently Banned From Twitter After Doubling Down With New Satanic Theory
Newsmax // Twitter

Right-wing media and elected officials have repeatedly embraced disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, which have proven safe and effective at minimizing the spread of the virus that's killed more than 750 thousand Americans.

They've said these vaccines go "against nature." They've painted efforts to encourage vaccinations through information as equivalent to Nazi atrocities. They've claimed the vaccines are magnetized or the biblical mark of the beast.


And earlier this month, Emerald Robinson—White House correspondent for the far-right disinformation outlet, Newsmax—tweeted a bizarre (and false) theory that the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines contained "LUCIFERASE," which she suggested was a satanic "marker."

Twitter later deleted the tweet for disinformation.

Luciferase is a naturally occurring light-producing enzyme discovered by French pharmacologist Raphaël Dubois in the late 19th century. Though evangelicals like Robinson often associate the name "Lucifer" with Satan, luciferase is named for the Latin words "lux" or "luc-," meaning light and "fer," meaning bringer, so the name for the bioluminescent material translates to "bringer of light." It was used during the research process of the Moderna vaccine but is not in the vaccines themselves.

Twitter soon slapped Robinson with a seven day suspension for peddling potentially dangerous disinformation regarding lifesaving treatment.

By Tuesday, Robinson's account was reinstated, and she immediately doubled down by once again promoting conspiracy theories surrounding Luciferase and other satanic conspiracy theories.

Robinson expanded her paranoia past vaccines, asserting that even COVID tests were secretly satanic.

She wrote on her Substack:

"One more thing: the new COVID-19 antibody test is called SATiN and it uses Luciferase. No, I'm not kidding. Just click here to see for yourself.

Let me repeat that information: the antibody test is called SATiN.
...
There's something very wrong here. You know it and I know it. You don't have to be a Christian to understand: names matter. It's not an accident that they've given this name to this test. It's a warning."

Soon, Robinson's deranged satanic panic got her permanently banned from Twitter.


People weren't sad to see her go.





Others called for her to have her White House press pass revoked as well.


Robinson still has an entire media company from which to spread her disinformation.

More from News

Joni Ernst
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for 137 Ventures/Founders Fund/Jacob Helberg

GOP Rep. Issues Wild Non-Apology After Telling Worried Constituents 'Well, We All Are Going To Die'

Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst was criticized after she shared an "apology" video on Instagram that shows her walking through a cemetery after going viral for dismissing constituents' worries about cuts to Medicaid and food benefits by telling them that "we all are going to die."

At a tense town hall meeting in Butler, Iowa, on Friday, Ernst defended the Republican-backed budget reconciliation package as frustrated constituents voiced concerns—particularly over its proposed changes to Medicaid.

Keep ReadingShow less
Megyn Kelly; Beyoncé
Gary Gershoff/Getty Images; Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

Megyn Kelly Tried To Make A Bonkers Claim About Beyoncé—But The Internet Brought The Receipts

Former Fox News Host Megyn "Santa Is White" Kelly has once again gone viral for spouting easily Google-able nonsense.

Kelly, who after a brief attempt at going legit on NBC after Trump's first election has since become a full-throated supporter of the president who publicly made period jokes about her on national television, recently tried to come for the Queen Bey herself, Beyoncé.

Keep ReadingShow less
Micah Beckwith
Micah Beckwith For Indiana/Facebook

Indiana Lt. Gov. Ripped After Claiming 'Rainbow Beast' Of Pride Month Is Targeting Kids

A post on the Micah Beckwith For Indiana Facebook account and on @MicahBeckwith on X is drawing a lot of ridicule, mockery and backlash for the owner of both accounts, MAGA Republican Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith.

A pastor at Life Church in Noblesville, Indiana, who proudly proclaims himself a Christian nationalist, Beckwith took time on Friday morning to warn people about the "Rainbow Beast."

Keep ReadingShow less
A screenshot of a little girl singing into an intercom on an airplaine/ a screenshot of two people with confused expressions and text reading "Our flight. got delayed bruh what is thisss.
@druziroaming/TikTok; @chloreally/TIkTok

Viral Video Of Young Girl Singing 'Moana' On Delayed Delta Flight Sparks Heated Debate

There are few things more frustrating than learning your flight is delayed.

Perhaps the only thing more frustrating is being caught in a holding pattern, preventing you from landing at your final destination.

Keep ReadingShow less
Elon Musk
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Musk Gives Bizarre Explanation For His Black Eye During Oval Office Conference—But Nobody's Buying It

Billionaire Elon Musk was mocked after he tried to explain away his noticeable black eye to reporters during an Oval Office press conference on Friday, blaming it on X Æ A-12, his 5-year-old son.

Musk, standing beside President Donald Trump, spoke to reporters as he prepared to leave his formal government role leading the advisory Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It was hard not to notice the purple-and-yellow discoloration around his right eye, which he said he received while “horsing around” with X.

Keep ReadingShow less