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Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social |
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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 Lorenz
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All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!!
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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"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”
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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-...
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Taylor Lorenz
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“Tufekci plays into the hands of the anti-science politicians who now seek vengeance on the flimsiest of grounds.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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There’s no research! Every person who actually does research in this area has said his entire argument is total BS. There have been a lot of great debunkings but this is my fave www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Taylor Lorenz
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Good thing social media is not like drugs!
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Taylor Lorenz
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This follows my, NYT, and LA Times reporting on Biden’s struggles to secure support and endorsements from young content creators www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Taylor Lorenz
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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.”
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Taylor Lorenz
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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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Max Kennerly
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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.
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Taylor Lorenz
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They’re very mad at me specifically lol
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Taylor Lorenz
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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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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”
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Ed Zitron
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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
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Taylor Lorenz
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The way they so quickly respond with gleeful fantasies about POC being harmed is disturbing. It’s something that I saw from Trump voters in 2016 that’s become completely normalized among the Biden fandom. Not good
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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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KINOPTIKA🐍 Mx 🍉
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Taylor Lorenz
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Not only can we not get masks in healthcare but Democrats in New York are literally trying to ban masks on public transport. It’s awful
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iskeptici
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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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iskeptici
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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
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Taylor Lorenz
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They literally stopped counting deaths and far more people are dying in the non acute stage. Please educate yourself on COVID www.thegauntlet.news/p/covid-lull...
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Taylor Lorenz
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And then Biden dismantled all of the Covid monitoring, testing infrastructure, safety measures and declared the state of emergency over kicking millions off healthcare in the middle of a pandemic
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Taylor Lorenz
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Far more people have died of Covid under Biden and we have fewer treatments for Covid now than in 2020. It’s a failure of both parties
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Taylor Lorenz
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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.
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Taylor Lorenz
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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 people within the administration
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Julia Doubleday
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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
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Julia Doubleday
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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
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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Paywall free link wapo.st/3z0Db9A
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Taylor Lorenz
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Paywall free link wapo.st/3z0Db9A
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Taylor Lorenz
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He has enacted policies further to the right of Trump on COVID and just tried to ban ppl seeking asylum
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Taylor Lorenz
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What they would say is that liberals continue to enable fascism by moving further and further to the right
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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.’”
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Taylor Lorenz
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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
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Taylor Lorenz
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“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...
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Steve Haroz
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Really interesting discussion by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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Kristian G. Andersen
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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.
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Taylor Lorenz
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"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...
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Taylor Lorenz
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All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!!
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 SUBSCRIBE for weekly tech/online culture videos and new podcast episodes!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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He says Meta has a pattern of bias against Palestinians, saying the company deleted content that mentioned deaths of relatives in Gaza, conducted investigations into use of 🇵🇸 flag emoji. Ppl who used Ukraine or Israel flag weren’t subject to the same investigations www.reuters.com/technology/f...
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Taylor Lorenz
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A former Meta engineer is speaking out against Meta’s bias in handling of content related to the attacks on Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian IG posts www.reuters.com/technology/f...
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Taylor Lorenz
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Breaking
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Taylor Lorenz
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The World Record Egg has come out in support of Palestine
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Taylor Lorenz
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All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!!
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 SUBSCRIBE for weekly tech/online culture videos and new podcast episodes!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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@notgeorgecarlin.bsky.social
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Here's a gift article, anyone can access.
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