The Florida COVID-19 data 'whistleblower' crashed the state's dashboard and locked out her manager before she was fired, the National Review reports

• The National Review wrote a column about Rebekah Jones, a Florida health department employee who was fired last year.
• Writer Charles C.W. Cooke reports that Jones crashed a data dashboard and locked out her manager before she was fired.
• The column accuses Jones - who claims the state was doctoring COVID-19 data - of being a conspiracy theorist.

Rebekah Jones, the former Florida health department employee who was fired last year, crashed the state's COVID-19 data dashboard and locked her manager out of the tool before she was terminated, according to a column in the National Review.

The column, published on Thursday and written by Charles C.W. Cooke, accuses Jones of being a conspiracy theorist who is a "good old-fashioned confidence trickster."

Jones, who worked on the state's COVID-19 dashboard, has claimed she was fired last year after refusing to fudge COVID-19 data. Personnel files obtained by the National Review reportedly show a manager speaking with a human-resources consultant about her public posts concerning the data.

The National Review column claims that after managers decided to remove her from the COVID-19 dashboard, she siphoned data from the report, crashing the tool. Jones later locked her manager who was "reversing her power grab" out of his account, Cooke writes in the National Review.

Jones has been charged with offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices, NPR reported in January.

She turned herself in to authorities in January, more than a month after authorities raided her Florida home.

Read more at the National Review.