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If you have not heard the name “Rebekah Jones,” you have probably at least heard of the “data scientist” who claimed she was fired for not changing COVID-19 data for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Jones was given a voice in the national press, which was already highly critical of the Republican governor.
It did not take too long, however, for Jones’ story to collapse. She was not, in fact, fired for refusing to change data, as she implied in her very public statements. She was fired for consistently ignoring her supervisors’ requests that she
stop releasing information on the state’s COVID dashboard and adding political commentary to them.