Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

===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" />