Conservative news network Newsmax has taken White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson off the air after she was suspended from Twitter for sharing a conspiracy theory that claims Covid-19 vaccines contain a 'bioluminescent' marker that allows people to be tracked.
Robinson claimed on Tuesday in a now-taken down tweet that 'the vaccines contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked'
Newsmax said it had taken her off the air but made it clear she is staying with the company for now.
'Newsmax is currently reviewing the posts and during that period Ms. Robinson will not be on air but continue with duties for the network,' the statement reads, shared by Washington Post reporter Erik Wemple.
Despite its misleading name, Luciferase has nothing to do with the biblical devil. It is a bioluminescence marker that is in a class of enzymes that can produce light in a chemical reaction.
Newsmax's White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson has been removed from the network's broadcast after she was suspended from Twitter following her tweet on the Moderna vaccine containing a satanic tracker
Newsmax said in a statement that it 'is currently reviewing the posts and during that period Ms. Robinson will not on air but continue with duties for the network
Robinson claimed the vaccine contained luciferase - a bioluminescence marker that is in a class of enzymes that can produce light in a chemical reaction - and that the ingredient allowed the vaccines to track people
The marker is not an ingredient listed in the Moderna vaccine and has never been, according to the CDC.
However, the marker was used in COVID-19 research back in the summer of 2020, but has never been an ingredient in any of the available vaccines, according to Reuters.
In her tweet, Robinson also urged her fellow 'Christians' followers to 'read the last book of the New Testament to see how it ends.'
The Book of Revelations showed the prophet John visions of the apocalypse and how it destroyed the world.
She did not refer to which of the 21 chapters she was referring to.
Following the controversial tweet, Newsmax first issued a statement distancing the organization from Robinson's false claims.
It said: 'Newsmax strongly believes and has reported that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective. We do not believe the vaccines contain any toxic materials or tracking markers, and such false claims have never been reported on Newsmax.'
Executive vice president and chief content officer at Newsmax Elliot Jacobson said in a separate statement that the company is a 'strong proponent that COVID-19 vaccines are overarchingly safe and effective.'
'We have seen no evidence to suggest LUCIFERASE or LUCIFERIN are present in any vaccines or that they are used as any sort bioluminescent marker,' Jacobson continued.
In a separate statement to the Hill, Jacobson reiterated that the company does not believe 'the vaccines contain any toxic materials or tracking markers.'
Robinson has made controversial posts in the past, expressing that the vaccine was a gateway to being forced to obey the government and there is 'abundant clinical evidence' that the 'vaccines don't work.' Twitter tagged her post as 'misleading'
Robinson has posted several controversial tweets in the past concerning vaccines and how it does not 'work as advertised.'
Last week, the Newsmax correspondent tweeted: 'There’s abundant clinical evidence that the new vaccines don’t work as advertised. That’s the biggest story around the world and it’s being suppressed.'
Twitter marked the tweet as 'misleading' and linked to a thread of CDC and WHO posts on the website to 'learn more about how the COVID-19 vaccines work.' The social media giant also disabled all interactions with the post, except retweets.
Earlier this year, Robinson claimed the vaccines were a chain reaction to force citizens to 'obey the government.'
'The pandemic is to force you to get the vaccine. The vaccine is to force you to get the vaccine passport. The vaccine passport is to force you into the social credit system. The social credit system is to force you into obeying the government,' she tweeted in late September.
Almost 60 percent of eligible Americans are vaccinated and almost 77,000 new COVID-19 have been as of November 2.
As of Tuesday, the U.S. has started vaccinating children ages five to 11, following CDC authorization.
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