LAURA Elizabeth Loomer is best known as a far-right activist as well as something of an internet personality.
She has been described as a “far-right provocateur” by Fortune magazine.
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Laura Loomer Who is Laura Loomer and how old is she?
Loomer, 28, was born on May 21, 1993.
She was raised in Arizona and went to Mount Holyoke College and eventually graduated from Barry University with a degree in broadcast journalism.
She has previously worked for the Canadian right-wing website The Rebel Media during the summer 2017.
She has also worked for Project Veritas with James O’Keefe.
Loomer has described herself as a nationalist and a “proud Jew”.
She has also denounced the alt-right and Richard B Spencer who coined the term.
She has also advocated a number of bizarre conspiracy theories, most notably those involved with mass shootings.
Loomer has infamously claimed the school shootings in Santa Fe, Texas and Parkland, Florida were staged but has not produced any evidence.
She has also claimed the Las Vegas mass shooter was affiliated to ISIS.
Loomer notoriously disrupted a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar.
Before being escorted off the stage by security, Loomer shouted "Stop the normalization of political violence against the right! This is unacceptable!"
Did Laura Loomer test positive for coronavirus?
In September 2021, Loomer confirmed she had tested positive for Covid after suffering from severe symptoms that she wrote left her feeling like she “got hit by a bus.”
She explained on far-right platform Gettr that she started suffering from “fever, chills, a runny nose, sore throat, nausea and severe body aches” before taking a Covid test that came back positive.
She added: “I have not taken the COVID-19 vaccine, and I don’t plan on ever taking it because it is unsafe and ineffective. Today, I immediately started a treatment of Azithromyacin and Hydroxychloroquine. I’m also taking the OrthoMune dietary supplement.”
In December 2020, she wrote on Parlr that she hoped she would test positive for Covid to "prove to people I’ve had bouts of food poisoning that are more serious and life threatening than a hyped up virus."
"Have you ever eaten bad fajitas? That will kill you faster than Covid” she wrote.
On Telegram, however, following up days later from her Gettr message, she urged people to "pray" for her.
“Can’t even begin to explain how brutal the body aches and nausea that come with Covid are. I am in so much pain.”
Did Laura Loomer run for congress?
Loomer is running for election to the US House to represent Florida's 11th Congressional District in 2022.
This is not the far-right activist's first dabble in politics. Loomer lost the 2020 United States House of Representatives election to incumbent Democrat Lois Frankel in Florida's 21st congressional district.
Frankel has represented the district since 2012. The district is heavily Democratic, and Loomer's candidacy was considered a long shot at the time.
Why did she handcuff herself to Twitter HQ in New York?
Loomer handcuffed herself to Twitter’s New York headquarters on November 29, 2018 in protest over the internet company banning her from the social media platform.
Her account was removed a week after she posted a tweet about Minnesota Rep-elect Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, which criticized her Muslim faith and called Omar “anti Jewish” and pro-Sharia law.
The new stunt was livestreamed and Loomer was seen wearing a yellow Star of David on her chest.
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Loomer yelled at one point, "They don't want you guys to know the truth," to a group of people who stood across the street.
"I am not going to stand by as people like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg [try to] silence the voices of millions of conservatives."
Twitter had banned some other far-right figures from it's platform in the past such as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for violating its terms of service.