Miami Herald gets duped by another Rebekah Jones hoax

by The Right Scoop

The Miami Herald got duped this week by more lies from Rebekah Jones. If you don’t remember, Jones was the one who lied about being fired by Governor DeSantis during COVID and became a leftist hero whistleblower. But she was found to be a complete fraud and eventually admitted her crimes which landed her a heft $20,000 fine.

Well she’s at it again, this time lying about the arrest of her son who had been threatening to shoot up a school. She claims he’s being targeted by DeSantis or something.

Here’s more from Mediaite:

The Miami Herald just can’t quit Rebekah Jones, even if it means whitewashing alleged threats to shoot up a school.

On Wednesday, Jones turned her 13-year-old son into the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office. He was wanted for intimidation, a second degree felony, because of threats he allegedly made to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Florida.

Classmates of Jones’s son had said that he had repeatedly alluded to such a desire, including in messages that read:

In one instance, according to the Pensacola News Journal, he even delineated specific plans to shoot up the the school prior to spring break.

After his arrest, Jones took to Twitter to claim that she and her family were the victims of political persecution.

“My family is not safe. My son has been taken on the gov’s orders, and I’ve had to send my husband and daughter out of state for their safety. THIS is the reality of living in DeSantis’ Florida,” wrote Jones, before going on to claim that the basis of his arrest was “a popular internet meme” captioned “Cops in their car waiting for the school shooter to kill himself so they can go in.”

“They kidnapped my son,” she continued. “This state has already gotten away with pointing guns at my son during their raid. I will not let them hurt him again.”

But far from a kidnapping, video evidence proves that Jones herself delivered her son to authorities:

And sat in a waiting room chair as he was handcuffed:

In subsequent tweets, Jones has alternated between claiming that she “didn’t turn him in,” attributing the allegation to “Twitter trolls,” and repeatedly asserting that she “had to turn him in” because “the state put out a warrant.”

Still, the Miami Herald ran with Jones’s story. “13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, whistleblower who clashed with DeSantis, arrested over memes,” blared the sensationalist headline from, irony of all ironies, two members of its investigative team.

The headline was eventually changed to note her son was arrested not for memes, but over a probe into “threatening internet posts.”

But not before the original headline traveled far and wide. One tweet linking to the story from the Herald‘s official account was seen by 3.2 million. Another from Julie Brown, yet another investigative journalist, has reached over 700,000.

“Looks like the DeSantis bots are out in full furor today. Unbelievable,” remarked Brown after users questioned the accuracy of the story framing.

Of course the Herald‘s credulous treatment of Jones’s uncredible claims — and ludicrous framing of Jones being locked in a cosmic battle on behalf of good against Governor Ron DeSantis’s evil — is absurd. But it’s nothing new.

They go on to tell the story of Jones’ fraudulent misdeeds that were championed by the garbage media in the past.

It seems that Jones is nothing but a perpetual liar and that her son is following in her footsteps of criminal behavior.

But some in the media, like the Miami Herald, continue to believe she’s a leftist hero and keep getting duped by her.


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