I think pretty central to this story is that Jones has clearly alleged she was instructed to manually alter data by Dr. Roberson yet her position was to run the GIS dashboard which merely received data from FL DOH. She wouldn't even have the means to alter such a thing, and if her data presented on the dashboard differed from internal DOH data, it would be obvious. Now the reality is that I don't know for 100% certain that she couldn't have had access to such a thing. I don't have a different source for that bit. I will say that the burden of proof is on the accuser, and it seems pretty clear that the initial allegations went absolutely nowhere, and the alleged gestapo raid resulted in arrest warrant for which she surrendered to custody. In there is a whole bunch of other stuff alleging a pattern of dramatic behavior and criminal history, emails addressing problems with Jones and attempts to professionally address them while she was employed, etc. Really I don't care too much about that. Jones really has provided nothing other than her word to substantiate any claim of intentional malfeasance, and that is simply not enough.
I will agree that the hit pieces are intended to paint a divisive narrative much broader than simply documenting that Jones herself is not credible, and that narrative is not remotely reasonable or appropriate. But neither this fact nor National Review's history of similar disreputable reporting have anything to do with Jones' credibility.
The simple truth appears to be that NR and other such conservative apparatuses are toxically weaving a divisive narrative, FL under DeSantis' leadership did a horrible job of providing an organized and sufficient response to COVID, and Jones herself has not provided any substantiated evidence of anything sinister behind the scenes. This is not a zero sum game. All 3 of those parties can be simultaneously bad even though they oppose each other.