Ex-Florida health department employee Rebekah Jones, who became a left-wing media darling for her conspiratorial claims about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, strangely claimed he spent an entire CNN interview talking about her and doubled down Thursday after a Twitter Community Note fact-checked her.

Jones tweeted an attack at DeSantis in response to the 2024 Republican presidential candidate's interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday. 

"His first CNN appearance as a candidate for president and he spent his time... talking about me. Add this to the fraudulent campaign report listing my name on his payroll, and it's clear [DeSantis] is an unhinged psychopath," Jones wrote.

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Twitter’s fact-checking service Community Notes corrected Jones’ tweet the same day. "The article linked never mentions Rebekah Jones. And the full interview is available, and he never mentions Rebekah Jones."

"I think she's hearing voices," one DeSantis supporter tweeted.

Jones linked to a Fox News Digital story about the interview, which did mention Jones, but only in the capacity of noting Tapper's past instances of discussing Jones' accusations against DeSantis. The interview itself did not delve into Jones, and DeSantis did not mention her either, according to transcripts.

Jones went on to defend her initial claim by saying, "DeSantis attacked the ‘media narrative’ around him prematurely reopening the state of Florida. Who was at the center of that? Oh yeah."

The media elevated Jones starting in 2020, portraying her as a defiant whistleblower speaking out against a corrupt Republican governor, and giving her favorable interviews on CNN and MSNBC. But a devastating report from National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke poked holes in her story, including the major revelation that she "did not have the ability to edit the raw data" in Florida's COVID database. A separate report from National Review also shed light on Jones' history of arrests and abusive behavior. 

A CBS News affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, reported in 2021 that Jones' claims were unsupported by evidence, and epidemiologists the outlet spoke to had seen nothing significant about Florida's publicly available COVID numbers. Nevertheless, she used the fame she won online to run for Congress, losing to Republican Matt Gaetz in a House race in 2022.

A liberal journalist even apologized to viewers for passing along Jones' past claims.

"The only person that should be held responsible for that is me," The Young Turks' Ana Kasparian said in April. 

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"I'm the executive producer of the show and I screwed up royally," she added. "Part of the reason I screwed up is because I had all these biases, of course, against Ron DeSantis. And I don't really feel bad about that… but it becomes a problem that bias blinds you to what the facts of various stories happen to be. And I should have done my due diligence, I failed to do so, and by failing to do so, I feel like I misled the audience into thinking that Rebekah Jones was some sort of hero."

Jones thanked Fox News Digital for making her aware of the "false" community note about her claim.

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Fox News’ David Rutz and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.

Russia will keep its minimum conscription age at 18 despite past promises to raise the limit.

A proposed bill originally supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin was set to raise the conscription age range from 18-27 to 21-30. 

Russian Defense Committee Chair Andrei Kartapolov told the press that the bill had been amended to only raise the upper age limit to 30, keeping the lower limit at 18.

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"We decided to keep the lower draft age limit at 18 years, because a lot of young men want to serve at 18," Kartapolov said.

The bill must now get a vote of approval from the nation's Federal Council before going to Putin's desk to be signed into law. It is expected to be passed and will be implemented in the 2024 call-up.

The Russian government's decision to expand the age range most likely aims to curb soldier shortages across the nation's military.

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Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has announced his intention to hold back from participating in the conflict after a falling out with Putin's government.

In a video released Wednesday, Prigozhin seems to state that the mercenaries will not be participating in the invasion of Ukraine, saying, "What is going on the front line today is a shame in which we shouldn’t take part. We may return to the special military operation when we feel sure that we will not be forced to put shame on ourselves."

Prigozhin is also heard stating that the Russian paramilitary group would be moving on to combat in Africa.

Putin offered Wagner mercenaries a chance to serve under the same commander during a meeting just days after their mutinous June march on Moscow was thwarted.