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- Newsmax's Emerald Robinson had falsely suggested COVID-19 vaccines were satanic.
- She claimed the vaccines contained a "bioluminescent marker." They don't.
- The network told Insider it's taking her off the air while it reviews her posts.
A television personality at the right-wing cable channel Newsmax who suggested vaccines against COVID-19 include a satanic tracking "marker" will not appear on air while the network reviews her social media posts, the company said Thursday.
Emerald Robinson, a White House correspondent at the channel, earlier in the week shared a post on Twitter falsely claiming the vaccine from Moderna included a substance that would enable people to be tracked.
"Read the last book of the New Testament to see how this ends," she added.
Newsmax quickly moved to distance itself from the post, which has since been deleted, stating that Robinson's "false claims" had not aired on the network itself.
The company is now saying that Robinson won't appear on the channel, either.
"Newsmax is currently reviewing the posts and during that period Ms. Robinson will not be on air but continue with duties for the network," Michelle O'Halloran, a spokesperson for the company, said in a statement.
As Insider reported, anti-vaccine activists have exploited the satanic-sounding name "luciferase" to spread fear about the inoculations against COVID-19. Although the chemical is used in medical research, it is not found in any of the vaccines that the US Food and Drug Administration has authorized.
Luciferase is a kind of protein that researchers and even college students can use in biology labs to verify if experiments were successful. It's how fireflies, some bacteria, and that toothy fish from "Finding Nemo" glow.