Taylor Lorenz

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Journalist writing about technology and life online for The Washington Post.

Host of Power User podcast

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Taylor Lorenzurlgeni.us Washington Post technology columnist making weekly videos about tech and online culture. SUBSCRIBE NOW!!

“Technology platforms are suppressing abortion-related speech, making it harder for people to access vital information about their own bodies.” www.hercampus.com/culture/free...

Free Speech & Reproductive Rights Are Deeply Connected — & Both Are On The Ballot This Novemberwww.hercampus.com A student activist explains the connection between free speech and reproductive rights, and why it's so important for Gen Z to vote in this election.

“Currently, there are more than 30 bills pending in Congress and statehouses across the country that seek to limit the right to protest.” www.teenvogue.com/united-state...

Welcome to the United States of Suppressionwww.teenvogue.com Our new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.

"On an average day, a financially motivated clickbait site is populated with celebrity news, cute animals, or highly emotional stories, all reliable drivers of traffic. Then, when political turmoil strikes, they drift toward hyperpartisan news, misinfo, & outrage bait bc it gets more engagement”

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformationwww.technologyreview.com The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

“The tendency to label what is political use of speech as a threat illustrates the national security state’s remarkable success at getting ordinary Americans to see the world the same way they do: as dominated by shadowy, hostile actors, even domestic ones.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/for-biden-...

When Did Everything Become "Disinformation"?www.kenklippenstein.com National security speak creeps into public use

“Tufekci plays into the hands of the anti-science politicians who now seek vengeance on the flimsiest of grounds.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covidwww.thenation.com A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.

“As researchers who have worked on AIDS for decades, we see analogies here to articles suggesting that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. Non-experts made these claims in the early years of the AIDS pandemic” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The New York Times Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid The paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

SCOOP: The White House is setting up shop at #VidCon next week to try to recruit creators to work w/ the president. They hope to discuss “opportunities for creators to engage more with official White House events, including having conversations with senior administration officials.”

If ur a teenager and social media has HELPED you or been a net positive in your life, especially if ur LGBTQ or member of a marginalized identity, please reach out I’d love to talk to u for a project! DM me your best contact number or email me on Taylor.lorenz at washpost dot com

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Excluding actual wars, Brexit is one of the greatest own-goals of all time. Britain and Europe had forged something their finest leaders and intellectuals considered an impossible dream: an alliance of shared prosperity. Then Britain tore it up in a fit of nativist dipshittery.

Whoa. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Liberal Biden stans got so mad at me over my story about Gen Z influencers turning on Biden that they made my name trend all weekend on Threads (which I didn’t even know was possible) and saying I’m a secret right wing Trump operative. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“COVID isn’t a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise”

“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americanswww.ineteconomics.org In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and ...

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Here's pt 2 of this week's Better Offline. It's about how Sam Altman's ridiculous promises about the future of AI could be ruinous for Silicon Valley, ft. a chat with Bloomberg's Ellen Huet about the secrets behind Altman's power. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here's part 1 of the Sam Altman series of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I dig into the history of Silicon Valley's favourite confidence man, and chat about his extremely weird investments with Tom Dotan of the WSJ. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

‎Better Offline: The Talented Mr. Altman on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Better Offline, Ep The Talented Mr. Altman - Jun 11, 2024

‎Better Offline: Sam Altman Is Dangerous To Silicon Valley on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Better Offline, Ep Sam Altman Is Dangerous To Silicon Valley - Jun 13, 2024

“Enjoy the camps” “I won’t feel sorry for you when you’re crying in the streets.” These are the responses Biden supporters have been sending to marginalized young ppl after I wrote about them refusing to support Biden until he stops funding Israel, stops ignoring the pandemic, among other policies

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This has nothing to do with my comment. Biden admin is gatekeeping vaccines, hiding data, and undermining public health by eliminating funding and pretending it's over. Now the dems are even threatening to ban masks. You are a rube Honesty requires holding both Biden and Trump accountable

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Man you really like the Kool Aid. Look, I have no obligation to educate you. But this should give you a glimpse behind the curtain. The CDC under Biden's direction eliminated COVID tracking and testing. The green is official COVID tracking. The red is amount of virus in the wastewater samples

It’s not a “clickbait story” it’s a piece I spent months reporting talking to dozens of Gen Z influencers and activists who partnered with the White House in the past, along with tons of data and research and conversations people within the administration and on the Biden campaign side.

This shows up in my feed 4 times. A little desperate? I’m a WP subscriber and no, I did not and will not read your clickbait story.

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If you'd like to support The Gauntlet, the outlet I founded because of the disappointing lack of COVID on the left, please do so here. Your support enables me to continue doing this work, and to keep critical public health info paywall free. www.thegauntlet.news/subscribe

Subscribe to The Gauntletwww.thegauntlet.news COVID Information, Updates, and Commentary. Click to read The Gauntlet, by Julia Doubleday, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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I was nervous to write this bc I know all the outlets I called out have a lot more resources than me; however, I’m simply tired of watching journalists bill themselves as leftists while they silently watch us die. Enough. t.co/5Y4qsQ6B4p

Silence from prominent left outlets continues as mask bans spreadt.co Eugenics has been successfully mainstreamed by libertarian think tanks, yet many popular left-wing journalists look on indifferently.

“This reality continues to worsen as Democrats join with Republicans to stigmatize and mock masks, while themselves failing to wear them, even during surges brought on by new variants.” www.thegauntlet.news/p/silence-fr...

Silence from prominent left outlets continues as mask bans spreadwww.thegauntlet.news Eugenics has been successfully mainstreamed by libertarian think tanks, yet many popular left-wing journalists look on indifferently.

“She and others also are frustrated with Biden’s mishandling of the pandemic, which remains ‘a crisis and we can’t even get masks in health-care settings.’ While ‘combating the pandemic was a focal point of Biden’s campaign in 2020,’ she said, ‘now it doesn’t seem to be a top priority.’”

Gen Z influencers who supported Biden in 2020 turn against himwww.washingtonpost.com The Gaza war, lack of progress on climate change and a potential TikTok ban are spawning anti-Biden content — even among former supporters.

My story on how Biden has alienated young voters through his stance on Gaza, failure to combat climate change, banning TikTok, ignoring the ongoing pandemic, boosting police funding, and more

“On November 11, the foreign ministry launched a campaign under the hashtag # BelieveIsraeliWomen. They didn’t mean ‘believe Israeli women’. They meant ‘believe Israel’.” www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up?www.thetimes.com The Israeli government insists that Hamas formally sanctioned sexual assault on October 7, 2023. But investigators say the evidence does not stand up to scrutiny. Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weinige...

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Really interesting discussion by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Is it ever ok to film strangers in public?www.youtube.com Internet culture reporter Rebecca Jennings joined me to discuss the absolute plague of people filming strangers. How did we come to live in this crowdsourced...

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When dealing with pseudoscience, the devil is in the detail - in this case, narrowing down a specific "Lab Leak" hypothesis. In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin. It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in. 🧵

On the day of Dr. Fauci's testimony, @nytimes.com decides to run a deeply unethical OpEd with snazzy graphics and snappy headlines about the Lab Leak. The article itself contains multiple falsehoods and deep mischaracterizations. Let's take every point in turn 👇🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Pointswww.nytimes.com The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.

"Teenagers have reported seeing pornographic material more on X than on adult sites. Research from the UK children’s commissioner found that 41% of teenagers reported seeing pornography on X, versus 37% for dedicated adult sites." www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

X changes porn policy to opt-in system that blocks under-18 userswww.theguardian.com The social media network’s new rules, announced on Monday, come after regulator pressure around the world to better protect children from inappropriate content

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Taylor Lorenzurlgeni.us Washington Post technology columnist making weekly videos about tech and online culture. SUBSCRIBE NOW!!