I’m split on this. I think she does some good work which all falls outside of product recommendations, and this is being seized as a proxy battle by people who disagree with other, harder to dispute work of hers. However, blatantly lying about what did or did not happen is not a good look,

even if I think a private social media post shouldn’t be considered a breach of professional conduct by an employer.

I tend to find that it's never a good sign when some online figure develops into a labyrinthine personal mythos

Very true.

also it was just such a high stakes yet lazy lie. who does that