1. Naomi Seibt is best known as a climate change denier and for her opposition to climate activist Greta Thunberg.
20 Facts About Naomi Seibt
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Naomi Seibt has spoken at multiple events organized by conservative think tanks and has self-identified as a libertarian and an anarcho-capitalist.
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In September 2017, Naomi Seibt graduated from Bischofliches Gymnasium St Mauritz, Munster, a Catholic high school.
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Naomi Seibt achieved a first place in physics in local regional competition of the Jugend forscht junior division, called "Students Experiment", and second place in mathematics.
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When Naomi Seibt was 16, her poem on nationalism, "Sometimes I Keep Silent", was published on David Berger's anti-Islamisation blog Philosophia Perennis, as part of an AfD competition.
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On 3 December 2019, Naomi Seibt spoke as an invited guest at the Madrid "Climate Reality Forum", a forum organized to rebut the United Nations' climate change warnings, while Greta Thunberg spoke at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference several miles away.
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Naomi Seibt was the only woman invited to speak at an event that is "traditionally dominated by older men".
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Naomi Seibt has previously spoken at the Heartland Institute, as well as at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, Naomi Seibt spoke to about a hundred conservatives.
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Naomi Seibt has denied allegations that she is a "puppet of the right wing or the climate deniers or the Heartland Institute".
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On 28 February 2020, an article in The Guardian stated that Naomi Seibt was inspired by the Canadian alt-right, white nationalist, and conspiracy theorist Stefan Molyneux after being introduced to his blogs.
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Naomi Seibt has been accused of both antisemitism and white nationalism due to her support for some on the alt-right.
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Naomi Seibt refused to comment; her mother denied that her daughter supports far-right politics.
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Naomi Seibt said that it was her decision not to renew a contract, and it was made because the Landesanstalt fur Medien NRW threatened to delete her YouTube channel on the grounds that she wants to influence German politics for an American think-tank.
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Recent analysis shows that Naomi Seibt's Twitter following surged after she repeatedly referenced QAnon.
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In November 2020, Naomi Seibt falsely claimed that COVID-19 had not yet been isolated and the PCR testing procedure was unreliable; she falsely claimed it was only based on a computer model of the virus genome.
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Naomi Seibt is affiliated with, and openly endorses, the far-right party AfD.
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Naomi Seibt was previously a paid conservative blogger and was promoted as "Anti-Greta", in response to Greta Thunberg, aligning herself with AfD.
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Naomi Seibt's influence was turbo-boosted in 2024 by Elon Musk reposting her videos on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Naomi Seibt has likewise endorsed figures directly associated with white nationalist movements, supporting their views.
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Naomi Seibt has been found to spread disinformation on X, including several false claims linked to far-right and white nationalist online groups across multiple platforms, such as Covid-19 and climate-related content.