Julia Jackson

NYU student who gained notoriety in September 2020 after publicly complaining on Twitter about her professor using mischaracterizations instead of bringing up her difference of opinion in class.

Julia Jackson demanded that her professor be fired for allegedly telling students that wearing face masks doesn’t prevent the spread of COVID-19.

@nyuniversity: an MCC tenured professor spent an entire class period telling students that wearing masks doesn’t prevent the spread of COVID-19, and that hydroxychloroquine trials were made to fail so more people would be given the vaccine and have their DNA changed. thread 1/

— julia (@julia_jacks) September 21, 2020

The target of the pronoun user was NYU communications professor Mark Crispin Miller.

Miller said he cited scientific studies during his “Mass Persuasion and Propaganda” class which backed up the claim that face coverings aren’t effective in stopping the spread of flu-like respiratory diseases.

He also called Jackson’s tweets “venomous” and said he in fact encouraged students to abide by the university’s mask mandate — claiming he was just simply thinking critically about it.

https://www.facebook.com/NBCNewYork/posts/in-several-tweets-julia-jackson-on-sunday-said-nyu-communications-professor-mark/10158720877909099/

Julia Jackson accused her communications professor, Mark Crispin Miller, of using his position of power to boost far-right conspiracy theories and discredit medical professionals in class.

NYU is displeased that I’ve questioned masking in my propaganda class