Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

==Other views==
===Conspiracy theories===
In the January 2013 issue of ''[[The Atlantic]]'', law and business professor [[Mark Nuckols]] wrote: "In her various books, articles, and public speeches, Wolf has demonstrated recurring disregard for the historical record and consistently mutilated the truth with selective and ultimately deceptive use of her sources." He added: "[W]hen she distorts facts to advance her political agenda, she dishonors the victims of history and poisons present-day public discourse about issues of vital importance to a free society." Nuckols argued that Wolf "has for many years now been claiming that a [[Fascism|fascist]] coup in America is imminent… [I]n ''The Guardian'' she alleged, with no substantiation, that the U.S. government and big American banks are conspiring to impose a 'totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent'."<ref name="Nuckols"/>

In the same month, [[Charles C. W. Cooke]] wrote in ''[[National Review#National Review Online|National Review Online]]'' <!-- October 2014 -->, "Over the last eight years, Naomi Wolf has written hysterically about coups and about vaginas and about little else besides. She has repeatedly insisted that the country is on the verge of martial law, and transmogrified every threat—both pronounced and overhyped—into a government-led plot to establish a dictatorship. She has made prediction after prediction that has simply not come to pass. Hers are not sober and sensible forecasts of runaway human nature, institutional atrophy, and constitutional decline, but psychedelic fever-dreams that are more typically suited to the ''[[InfoWars]]'' crowd."<ref name="CookeNR" />

[[Sarah Ditum]] wrote in the ''[[New Statesman]]'', "Perhaps it's not that Wolf is a feminist who's degenerated into conspiracism, but instead that she's a conspiracy theorist who happened to fall into feminism first. ''The Beauty Myth'' is a conspiracy theory of a sort, and sometimes conspiracies are real: the self-replicating power structure of patriarchy is one of them."<ref name="NS20141007">{{cite news|last=Ditum|first=Sarah|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/sarah-ditum/2014/10/naomi-wolf-not-feminist-who-became-conspiracy-theorist-she-s-conspiracist-who|title=Naomi Wolf is not a feminist who became conspiracy theorist – she's a conspiracist who was once right|work=New Statesman|location=London|date=October 7, 2014|access-date=April 1, 2021|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421112945/https://www.newstatesman.com/sarah-ditum/2014/10/naomi-wolf-not-feminist-who-became-conspiracy-theorist-she-s-conspiracist-who|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Defense of Julian Assange===
{{See also|Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority#Harassment of complainants, lawyers and journalists|}}
Shortly after [[Julian Assange]] was arrested in 2010, Wolf wrote in an article for ''[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]'' that the allegations two women made against him amounted to no more than bad manners from a boyfriend.<ref name="NS20141007" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Wolf|first=Naomi|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033?guccounter=1|title=Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police|work=The Huffington Post|date=December 7, 2010|access-date=November 17, 2019|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804060454/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033?guccounter=1|url-status=live}}</ref> His accusers, she later wrote in several contexts, were working for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], and Assange had been falsely accused.<ref name="NS20141007" />

On December 20, 2010, ''[[Democracy Now!]]'' featured a debate between Wolf and [[Jaclyn Friedman]] on Assange's case. According to Wolf, the alleged victims should have said no, asserted that they consented to having sex with him, and said the claims were politically motivated and demeaned the cause of legitimate rape victims.<ref>{{cite web | last = Goodman | first = Amy | author-link = Amy Goodman | title = Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange | work = Democracy Now! | date = December 20, 2010 | url = http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/20/naomi_wolf_vs_jaclyn_friedman_a | access-date = December 22, 2010 | archive-date = December 22, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101222072533/http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/20/naomi_wolf_vs_jaclyn_friedman_a | url-status = live }}</ref> In a 2011 ''Guardian'' article, she argued that the accuser in rape cases should not retain anonymity. She said anonymity in such cases was "a relic of the Victorian era" which "serves institutions that do not want to prosecute rapists [...] this is particularly clear in the Assange case, where public opinion matters far more than usual".<ref>{{cite news|last=Wolf|first=Naomi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jan/05/julian-assange-sex-crimes-anonymity|title=Julian Assange's sex-crime accusers deserve to be named|work=The Guardian|date=January 5, 2011|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref> In ''The Nation'', [[Katha Pollitt]] wrote that Wolf's argument was that anonymity "impedes law enforcement", which Pollitt said "is a little bizarre: doesn't Wolf realize that anonymity applies only to the media? Everyone in the justice system knows who the complainants are."<ref>{{cite news|last=Pollitt|first=Katha|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/naomi-wolf-wrong-again-rape/|title=Naomi Wolf: Wrong Again on Rape|work=The Nation|date=January 10, 2011|access-date=October 23, 2019|archive-date=October 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023110856/https://www.thenation.com/article/naomi-wolf-wrong-again-rape/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Laurie Penny]] wrote in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' in September 2012 that "Wolf has done great damage by using her platform as one of the world's most famous feminists to dismiss these women's allegations."<ref>{{cite news|last=Penny|first=Laurie|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2012/09/problem-naomi-wolfs-vagina|title=Laurie Penny on the problem with Naomi Wolf's vagina|work=New Statesman|location=London|date=September 10, 2012|access-date=March 1, 2021|archive-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517122705/https://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2012/09/problem-naomi-wolfs-vagina|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Occupy Wall Street===
On October 18, 2011, Wolf was arrested and detained in New York during the [[Occupy Wall Street]] protests, having ignored a police warning not to remain on the street in front of a building. She spent about 30 minutes in a cell.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wells|first=Matt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/19/naomi-wolf-occupy-wall-street-arrested |title=Naomi Wolf arrested at Occupy Wall Street protest in New York|work=The Guardian |location=London |date= October 19, 2011|access-date=October 20, 2011 }}</ref> She disputed the NYPD's interpretation of applicable laws: "I was taken into custody for disobeying an unlawful order. The issue is that I actually know New York City permit law…I didn't choose to get myself arrested. I chose to obey the law and that didn't protect me."<ref>{{cite news |last=Cherkis |first=Jason |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street_n_1020986.html |title=Author Naomi Wolf Speaks Out About Her Arrest At Occupy Wall Street Protest |work=The Huffington Post |location=London |date=October 19, 2011 |access-date=August 21, 2012 |archive-date=March 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312025614/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street_n_1020986.html |url-status=live }} Ellipsis in the source.</ref>

A month later, Wolf argued in ''The Guardian'', citing leaked documents, that attacks on the [[Occupy movement]] were a coordinated plot orchestrated by federal law enforcement agencies. Those leaks, she alleged, showed that the FBI was privately treating OWS as a terrorist threat rather than a peaceful organization.<ref name="Crackdown">{{cite news|last=Wolf|first=Naomi | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy |title=The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy |work=The Guardian |location=London |date= November 25, 2011|access-date=February 29, 2012 }}</ref> The response to this article ranged from praise to criticism of Wolf for being overly speculative and creating a [[conspiracy theory]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Seaton|first=Matt|url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/28/naomi-wolf-reception-responses-critics |title=Naomi Wolf: reception, responses, critics |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=November 28, 2011|access-date=February 29, 2012}}</ref> Wolf responded that there was ample evidence for her argument, and proceeded to review the information available to her at the time of the article, and what she alleged was new evidence since that time.<ref>{{cite news|author=Wolf, Naomi | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/02/crackdown-occupy-controversy-rebuttal-naomi-wolf |title=The crackdown on Occupy controversy: a rebuttal |work=The Guardian |location=London |date= December 2, 2011|access-date=February 29, 2012 }}</ref>

Imani Gandy of Balloon Juice wrote that "nothing substantiates Wolf's claims", that "Wolf's article has no factual basis whatsoever and is, therefore, a journalistic failure of the highest order" and that "it was incumbent upon [Wolf] to fully research her claims and to provide facts to back them up."<ref>{{cite news |author=Gandy, Imani |url=http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/11/27/naomi-wolfs-shocking-truths-about-ows-crackdowns-are-truthless/#more-86898 |title=Naomi Wolf's 'Shocking Truths' on #OWS Crackdowns Are False |work=Balloon Juice |date=November 27, 2011 |access-date=February 24, 2015 |archive-date=February 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225054813/http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/11/27/naomi-wolfs-shocking-truths-about-ows-crackdowns-are-truthless/#more-86898 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Corey Robin]], a political theorist, journalist, and associate professor of political science at [[Brooklyn College]] and the [[Graduate Center]] of the [[City University of New York]], wrote on his [[blog]]: "The reason Wolf gets her facts wrong is that she's got her theory wrong."<ref>{{cite news|author=Robin, Corey|url=http://coreyrobin.com/2011/11/27/the-occupy-crackdowns-why-naomi-wolf-got-it-wrong/|title=The Occupy Crackdowns: Why Naomi Wolf Got It Wrong|date=November 27, 2011|access-date=February 28, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924032746/http://coreyrobin.com/2011/11/27/the-occupy-crackdowns-why-naomi-wolf-got-it-wrong/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a December 2012 ''Guardian'' article, Wolf wrote about<ref name=":0" /> [[FBI]] documents released following an [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|FOIA]] request from the [[Partnership for Civil Justice Fund]] revealed that the FBI used counterterrorism agents and other resources to monitor the national Occupy movement extensively.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Dominique |last1=Debucquoy-Dodley |url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/fbi-occupy/index.html |title=FBI considered Occupy movement potential threat, documents say |publisher=CNN.com |date=December 26, 2012 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-date=February 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214065147/http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/fbi-occupy/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The documents contained no references to agency personnel covertly infiltrating Occupy branches, but did indicate that the FBI gathered information from police departments and other law enforcement agencies relating to planned protests.<ref name="nyt2012-12-25">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html | title=F.B.I. Counterterrorism Agents Monitored Occupy Movement, Records Show | work=The New York Times | date=December 24, 2012 | first1=Michael S. | last1=Schmidt | access-date=April 19, 2013 | last2=Moynihan | first2=Colin | archive-date=May 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513104227/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, the blog [[Techdirt]] reported that the documents disclosed a plot by unnamed parties "to murder OWS leadership in Texas" but that "the FBI never bothered to inform the targets of the threats against their lives."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130102/09481421547/fbi-working-with-banks-chose-not-to-inform-occupy-leadership-assassination-plot-its-leaders.shtml |title=FBI, Working With Banks, Chose Not To Inform Occupy Leadership Of Assassination Plot On Its Leaders |first1=Timothy |last1=Geigner |publisher=Techdirt |date=January 2, 2013 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-date=May 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526214447/http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130102/09481421547/fbi-working-with-banks-chose-not-to-inform-occupy-leadership-assassination-plot-its-leaders.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> Wolf wrote:<blockquote>It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall [2011]—so mystifying at the time—was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves—was coordinated with the big banks themselves.

How simple…just to label an entity a 'terrorist organization' and choke off, disrupt or indict its sources of financing.

[The FBI crackdown on Occupy] was never really about 'the terrorists'. It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens—it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Wolf |first=Naomi |date=December 29, 2012 |title=Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy |access-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-date=April 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402194133/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' claimed that none of the documents revealed efforts by federal law enforcement agencies to disband the Occupy camps, and that the documents did not provide much evidence that federal officials attempted to suppress protesters' free speech rights. ''Mother Jones'' said the truth was "a far cry from Wolf's contention."<ref>{{cite news |first1= Gavin |last1= Aronsen |url= https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/occupy-fbi-documents-naomi-wolf |title= What the FBI's Occupy Docs Do—and Don't—Reveal |work= Mother Jones |date= January 7, 2013 |access-date= October 6, 2014 |archive-date= October 13, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141013073414/http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/occupy-fbi-documents-naomi-wolf |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Edward Snowden===
In June 2013, ''New York'' magazine reported that Wolf, in a recent [[Facebook]] post, had expressed her "creeping concern" that [[NSA]] leaker [[Edward Snowden]] "is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be."<ref name="Coscarelli">{{cite news |first1=Joe |last1=Coscarelli |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/naomi-wolf-edward-snowden-false-flag-conspiracy.html |title=Naomi Wolf Thinks Edward Snowden and His Sexy Girlfriend Might Be Government Plants |work=New York |date=June 14, 2013 |access-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-date=October 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010210931/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/naomi-wolf-edward-snowden-false-flag-conspiracy.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Wolf was similarly skeptical of Snowden's "very pretty pole-dancing Facebooking girlfriend who appeared for, well, no reason in the media coverage…and who keeps leaking commentary, so her picture can be recycled in the press."<ref name="Coscarelli" /> She wondered whether he was planted by "the Police State".<ref name="Seitz-Wald">{{cite news|last=Seitz-Wald|first=Alex|url=https://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/here_come_the_edward_snowden_truthers/|title=Here come the Edward Snowden truthers|work=Salon|date=June 19, 2013|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=November 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119044852/https://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/here_come_the_edward_snowden_truthers/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Wolf responded on her website: "I do find a great deal of media/blog discussion about serious questions such as those I raised, questions that relate to querying some sources of news stories, and their potential relationship to intelligence agencies or to other agendas that may not coincide with the overt narrative, to be extraordinarily ill-informed and naive." Of Snowden, she wrote, "Why should it be seen as bizarre to wonder, if there are some potential red flags—the key term is 'wonder'—if a former NSA spy turned apparent whistleblower might possibly still be—working for the same people he was working for before?"<ref>{{cite news |first1=Naomi |last1=Wolf |url=http://naomiwolf.org/2013/06/some-aspects-of-snowdens-presentation-that-i-find-worth-further-inquiry-an-update/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630205614/http://naomiwolf.org/2013/06/some-aspects-of-snowdens-presentation-that-i-find-worth-further-inquiry-an-update/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |title=Some aspects of Snowden's presentation that I find worth further inquiry – an update |publisher=naomiwolf.org |date=June 15, 2013 |access-date=October 6, 2014 }}</ref>

''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' accused Wolf of making factual errors and misreadings.<ref name="Seitz-Wald" />

===Islamic State executions and other assertions===
In a series of Facebook posts in October 2014, Wolf questioned the authenticity of videos purporting to show [[ISIL beheading incidents|beheadings of two American journalists and two Britons]] by the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]], implying that they had been staged by the U.S. government and that the victims and their parents were actors.<ref name="Fisher2014" /><ref name="Moynihan2014" /> Wolf also charged that the U.S. was dispatching military troops not to assist in treating the [[Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa]], but to carry the disease back home to justify a military takeover of the U.S.<ref name="Fisher2014" /><ref name="SMH20141206">{{cite news |last=Berry |first=Sarah |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/naomi-wolf-slammed-for-unhinged-conspiracy-theories-20141006-10qq5z.html |title=Naomi Wolf slammed for 'unhinged conspiracy theories' |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=October 6, 2014 |access-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-date=October 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008121318/http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/naomi-wolf-slammed-for-unhinged-conspiracy-theories-20141006-10qq5z.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She further said that the [[2014 Scottish independence referendum]], in which Scotland voted to remain in the U.K., was faked.<ref name="Fisher2014" /> Speaking about this at a demonstration in Glasgow on October 12, Wolf said, "I truly believe it was rigged."<ref>Peter Geoghegan [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/glasgow-rally-shows-independence-aspiration-intact-1.1961072 "Glasgow rally shows independence aspiration intact"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928002323/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/glasgow-rally-shows-independence-aspiration-intact-1.1961072 |date=September 28, 2020 }}, ''Irish Times'', October 13, 2014</ref>

Responding to such criticism, Wolf said, "All the people who are attacking me right now for 'conspiracy theories' have no idea what they are talking about ... people who assume the dominant narrative MUST BE TRUE and the dominant reasons MUST BE REAL are not experienced in how that world works." Wolf posted, "I stand by what I wrote."<ref name="SMH20141206" /> But in a later Facebook post, she retracted her statement: "I am not asserting that the ISIS videos have been staged", she wrote.
<blockquote>I certainly sincerely apologize if one of my posts was insensitively worded. I have taken that one down. ... I am not saying the ISIS beheading videos are not authentic. I am not saying they are not records of terrible atrocities. I am saying that they are not yet independently confirmed by two sources as authentic, which any Journalism School teaches, and the single source for several of them, [[SITE Intelligence Group|SITE]], which received half a million dollars in government funding in 2004, and which is the only source cited for several, has conflicts of interest that should be disclosed to readers of news outlets.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Naomi |last1=Wolf |url=https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author/posts/10152727754274476  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/27231109475/10152727754274476 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=My letter to some news outlets |publisher=Facebook |date=October 6, 2014 |access-date=October 7, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref></blockquote> Max Fisher commented that "the videos were widely distributed on open-source jihadist online outlets" while the "Maryland-based nonprofit SITE monitors extremist social media." Wolf deleted her original Facebook posts.<ref name="Fisher2014" />

===COVID-19 pandemic===
During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Wolf has frequently promoted [[COVID-19 misinformation]], [[misinformation related to vaccination]] and [[5G conspiracies|5G conspiracy theories]].<ref name="BsIn2021">{{cite news |last1=Burrell |first1=Ian |title=Who's afraid of Naomi Wolf? |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/whos-afraid-of-naomi-wolf-2021-6 |access-date=June 5, 2021 |work=Business Insider |date=June 5, 2021 |archive-date=June 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605132424/https://www.businessinsider.com/whos-afraid-of-naomi-wolf-2021-6 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BBC2021-06-06">{{Cite news |date=June 6, 2021 |title=Covid: Twitter suspends Naomi Wolf after tweeting anti-vaccine misinformation |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57374241 |access-date=April 12, 2022 |archive-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413033943/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57374241 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="TimesUK2021-06-13">{{Cite news |last=Kinchen |first=Rosie |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Naomi Wolf: I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm asking important questions |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/naomi-wolf-im-not-a-conspiracy-theorist-im-asking-important-questions-m8ftgs5dc |access-date=April 12, 2022 |issn=0140-0460 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=April 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412011201/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/naomi-wolf-im-not-a-conspiracy-theorist-im-asking-important-questions-m8ftgs5dc |url-status=live }}</ref>

After [[Joe Biden]] was elected U.S. president, Wolf tweeted on November 9, 2020: "If I'd known Biden was open to '[[COVID-19 lockdowns|lockdowns]]' as he now states, which is something historically unprecedented in any pandemic, and a terrifying practice, one that won't ever end because elites love it, I would never have voted for him."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-economic-lockdowns-coronavirus|title=Ex-Clinton adviser questions Biden vote over his stance on more shutdowns|first=Brittany|last=De Lea|work=Fox News|date=November 9, 2020|access-date=February 6, 2021|archive-date=February 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223042200/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-economic-lockdowns-coronavirus|url-status=live}}</ref> In February 2021, Wolf said on ''[[Tucker Carlson Tonight]]'' on [[Fox News]] that government COVID-19 restrictions were turning the U.S. "into a totalitarian state before everyone's eyes", and went on to say, "I really hope we wake up quickly, because history also shows that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Halon |first1=Yael |title=Ex-Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf warns US becoming 'totalitarian state before our eyes' under Biden |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/naomi-wolf-tucker-clinton-adviser-biden-lockdowns |access-date=February 22, 2021 |work=Fox News |date=February 22, 2021 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223032437/https://www.foxnews.com/media/naomi-wolf-tucker-clinton-adviser-biden-lockdowns |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a March 2021 interview for [[Sky News Australia]], Wolf claimed that lockdown policies are an "invention" of Chinese leader [[Xi Jinping]]. She also said that "Every human right in law is being violated", that Australians are being "lied to over and over", and that Australians are being psychologically tortured.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6236581663001|title=Lockdowns are an 'invention of Xi Jinping': Naomi Wolf|work=Sky News Australia|date=March 2, 2021|access-date=March 2, 2021|quote='It's been painful for me to watch the people of Australia being lied to over and over and tortured there psychologically.' Ms Wolf said Australia's democracy has been 'put on hold' for 'illegal reasons'.  'Nowhere does it say in a sound and healthy society that you get to suspend civil liberties if there's a disease around. That is not how it works in a democracy'.|archive-date=March 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302073729/https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6236581663001|url-status=live}}</ref>

On April 19, 2021, Wolf alleged that [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] director [[Anthony Fauci]], Biden's chief medical advisor, "doesn't work for us", asserting he had loyalties to [[Israel]] that interfered with service to public health. Wolf pointed to $1 million she said Fauci had received from Israel. It was actually the [[Dan David Prize]], a prestigious private award that Fauci received in 2021 for public service.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sales |first=Ben |date=April 20, 2021 |title=Conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf claims Anthony Fauci 'doesn't work for us' and got $1 million from Israel |url=https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/conspiracy-theorist-naomi-wolf-says-on-fox-news-that-anthony-fauci-doesnt-work-for-us-and-got-1-million-from-israel |access-date=April 21, 2021 |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |language=en-US |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420234049/https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/conspiracy-theorist-naomi-wolf-says-on-fox-news-that-anthony-fauci-doesnt-work-for-us-and-got-1-million-from-israel |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=March 3, 2021 |title=Fauci, Rosenberg Win Dan David Prize |url=https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2021/03/19/fauci-rosenberg-win-dan-david-prize |access-date=April 21, 2021 |website=NIH Record |language=EN |quote=for his exceptional contributions to HIV research, being the architect of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, heading NIAID, fighting for the recognition of novel approaches such as mRNA vaccines and 'courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging Covid-19 crisis.' |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421023236/https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2021/03/19/fauci-rosenberg-win-dan-david-prize |url-status=live }}</ref>

Wolf opposes [[COVID-19 vaccine passports]], saying they represent "the absolute end of the line for human liberty in the West."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Silverman|first=Jacob|date=March 31, 2021|title=A Vaccine Passport Would Be an Ethical Disaster Right Now|magazine=The New Republic|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/161868/vaccine-passport-excelsior-justin-amash|access-date=April 29, 2021|issn=0028-6583|archive-date=April 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429140400/https://newrepublic.com/article/161868/vaccine-passport-excelsior-justin-amash|url-status=live}}</ref>

Wolf has frequently shared [[Misinformation related to vaccination|conspiracy theories]] concerning the safety and efficacy of [[COVID-19 vaccine|vaccines against COVID-19]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Boucher|first=Dave|url=https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/06/covid-19-conspiracy-theorist-testifies-michigan/|title=Michigan lawmakers invite COVID-19 conspiracy theorist to testify on bill to ban vaccine passports|work=Politifact|date=May 6, 2021|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509192642/https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/06/covid-19-conspiracy-theorist-testifies-michigan/|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2021, she was instrumental in amplifying and spreading myths that the vaccines cause female infertility.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brumfiel |first=Geoff |date=July 20, 2021 |title=The Life Cycle Of A COVID-19 Vaccine Lie |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/20/1016912079/the-life-cycle-of-a-covid-19-vaccine-lie |access-date=July 21, 2021 |work=[[NPR|NPR News]] |language=en |archive-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720231639/https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/20/1016912079/the-life-cycle-of-a-covid-19-vaccine-lie |url-status=live }}</ref> Wolf's conspiratorial and anti-vaccine stance has been criticized as irresponsible, and she has also been the subject of ridicule.<ref name="indy100_1821013">{{cite web|url=https://www.indy100.com/people/naomi-wolf-twitter-prank-covid-vaccine-b1821013|title=Infamous anti-vaxxer Naomi Wolf pranked into sharing a fake doctor's quotation from porn star Johnny Sins|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London|last1=Brewis|first1=Harriet|date=March 23, 2021|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=May 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508235004/https://www.indy100.com/people/naomi-wolf-twitter-prank-covid-vaccine-b1821013|url-status=live}}</ref>

Twitter suspended Wolf's account in June 2021,<ref name="BsIn2021" /> a decision the company said was permanent, according to the <!-- Identified with The Observer in the heading -->London ''[[The Observer|Observer]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Connett|first=David|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/05/naomi-wolf-banned-twitter-spreading-vaccine-myths|title=Naomi Wolf banned from Twitter for spreading vaccine myths|work=The Observer|location=London|date=June 5, 2021|access-date=June 5, 2021}}</ref> At the end of July 2021, ''The Daily Beast'' reported that Wolf was a co-plaintiff in former president [[Donald Trump]]'s social media lawsuit. According to Wolf, Twitter's suspension of her account led her to lose "over half of her business model, investors in her business, and other sources of income."<ref>{{cite news|last=Rawnsley|first=Adam|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxer-naomi-wolf-joins-donald-trumps-doomed-tech-suit?ref=scroll|title=Anti Vaxxer Naomi Wolf Joins Trump's Doomed Tech Suit|work=The Daily Beast|date=July 28, 2021|access-date=July 28, 2021|archive-date=July 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728215634/https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxer-naomi-wolf-joins-donald-trumps-doomed-tech-suit?ref=scroll|url-status=live}}</ref>

Wolf appeared on the May 23, 2022, episode of ''[[The Charlie Kirk Show]]'', where she said: "There are military-age men pouring over the border from places like Afghanistan and Ukraine. And the easiest thing in the world to send them to God knows where, you know, and to arm them to assist the World Health Organization." She argued that the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]] made it harder for government to subjugate the population, but that it was possible. Wolf said, "I really hope that it doesn't devolve into civil war, which is really what the next thing is in history when you have an occupying force, which is what the WHO will be, you know, by next week."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/youtube-naomi-wolf-says-who-will-occupy-us-next-week-and-could-trigger-civil-war|title=On YouTube, Naomi Wolf says that the WHO will occupy the U.S. next week, and that could trigger a civil war|publisher=Media Matters for America|date=May 23, 2022|access-date=May 24, 2022|archive-date=May 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523222117/https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/youtube-naomi-wolf-says-who-will-occupy-us-next-week-and-could-trigger-civil-war|url-status=live}}</ref>

In an October 2022 interview with UK TV channel [[GB News]], Wolf said that COVID-19 vaccines are part of an effort "to destroy British civil society". [[Ofcom]], the UK broadcasting regulatory agency, announced an investigation into GB News after receiving more than 400 complaints from members of the public<ref>{{Cite web |last=Waterson |first=Jim |date=October 12, 2022 |title=GB News faces second Ofcom inquiry into Covid vaccine coverage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/12/gb-news-second-ofcom-investigation-covid-vaccine-coverage-naomi-wolf-mark-steyn-show |access-date=October 14, 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> and later found the channel in breach of broadcasting rules.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 9, 2023 |title=GB News in 'significant breach' of Ofcom rules over Covid vaccine claims |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gb-news-covid-vaccine-ofcom-b2335467.html |access-date=May 9, 2023 |website=The Independent|first=Adam|last=Forrest |language=en |archive-date=May 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509125611/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gb-news-covid-vaccine-ofcom-b2335467.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In January 2023, Wolf appeared with [[Steve Bannon]] in his War Room show on [[Robert J. Sigg]]'s [[Real America's Voice]] television network. They advertised a book titled ''Pfizer Documents Analysis Report'' that supposedly contained "50 reports using primary source Pfizer documents released under a court order by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration". The authors were not mentioned, but summarized as a team of 3,500 medical experts by the name of "The War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project". According to Wolf and Bannon, the book rips "the veneer off the myth that mRNA injections are safe and effective."<ref>{{Cite web |last=DailyClout |date=January 18, 2023 |title=The War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Volunteers Publish e-Book Available on DailyClout.io's Website |url=https://dailyclout.io/the-war-room-dailyclout-pfizer-documents-analysis-volunteers-publish-e-book-available-on-dailyclout-ios-website/ |access-date=March 20, 2023 |website=DailyClout |language=en-US |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320173336/https://dailyclout.io/the-war-room-dailyclout-pfizer-documents-analysis-volunteers-publish-e-book-available-on-dailyclout-ios-website/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Martin Luther King Jr. ===
On September 7, 2024, Wolf posted to [[Twitter]], "[[Martin Luther King Jr.|Rev MLK Jr]] was a convicted felon."<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1832240151193428200 |user=naomirwolf |title=I was in an Uber with a Virginian driver who was talking about civil rights, and said he would never never vote for a convicted felon. I pointed out that the Rev MLK Jr was a convicted felon. There was a pause. |first=Naomi |last=Wolf |date=7 September 2024 |access-date=7 September 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240909150110/https://x.com/naomirwolf/status/1832240151193428200 |archive-date=9 September 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> In fact, King's only felony indictment was in February 1960, when an Alabama grand jury issued a warrant for his arrest for perjury.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tereszcuk |first=Alexis |date=2024-09-09 |title=Fact Check: MLK Jr. Was NOT A Convicted Felon -- Jury Found Him NOT Guilty Of Felony {{!}} Lead Stories |url=https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2024/09/fact-check-mlk-jr-was-not-a-convicted-felon-jury-found-him-not-guilty-of-felony.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240910033651/https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2024/09/fact-check-mlk-jr-was-not-a-convicted-felon-jury-found-him-not-guilty-of-felony.html |archive-date=10 September 2024 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=leadstories.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He was found not guilty. Wolf's false claim was subsequently "fact-checked into oblivion" by [[Community Notes]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Faruque |first=Omar |date=2024-09-08 |title='What a disgusting way to beg for attention and fame': MAGA journalist gets fact-checked into oblivion after she dares to drag Martin Luther King Jr. into the Donald Trump dumpyard |url=https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/what-a-disgusting-way-to-beg-for-attention-and-fame-maga-journalist-gets-fact-checked-into-oblivion-after-she-dares-to-drag-martin-luther-king-jr-into-the-donald-trump-dumpyard/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240909225536/https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/i-am-not-lying-mark-hamill-prays-that-both-you-and-the-maga-cult-will-believe-that-this-was-his-first-real-job/ |archive-date=9 September 2024 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=We Got This Covered |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Bernice King]], Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest child, called Wolf's claim an attempt to "assassinate my father's character".<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1832498692982440072 |user=BerniceKing |title=Why continue to assassinate my father's character, after he already died by assassination, with erroneous information and comparisons?|author=Be A King |date=7 September 2024 }}</ref>