This past Saturday, the Chicago Thinker spoke with Dr. Jessica Hockett about her recent permanent suspension from Twitter following her direct quotation of an op-ed from The Wall Street Journal criticizing the Biden-led “rush” to vaccinate children against COVID-19. Emma Woodhouse, Hockett’s pen name, is taken from the Jane Austen novel protagonist of the same name.
Since the start of the pandemic, Woodhouse amassed a significant presence on Twitter, where she gained upwards of 38,000 followers for astutely challenging the conventional wisdom from regime-designated “experts” vis-à-vis COVID, who have been broadly and consistently wrong about nearly everything. On July 6, Twitter permanently suspended her for directly quoting a WSJ article written by Allysia Finley entitled “Why the Rush for Toddler Vaccines?”
The reason Twitter gave for Woodhouse’s account’s suspension was for her quotation of the WSJ article: “It [my Twitter account] wasn’t locked over that data tweet. They cited The Wall Street Journal [as my reason for suspension].” The article was “questioning the speed with which the toddler EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) came out.” The offending quotation from Finley: “The FDA conspicuously lowered its standards to approve Covid vaccines for toddlers. Why?”
Regarding her suspension, Woodhouse told the Thinker that “It’s suppression of freedom of speech. It’s conservative-leaning, but The Wall Street Journal is a venerable news institution in the United States, like them or not.”