Taylor Lorenz

Technology and online culture journalist and content creator. I write User Magazine, a newsletter about how the internet is reshaping politics, culture, and business.

https://www.usermag.co

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2025-05-07 19:03:13 GMT

"We condemn India's increasingly fascist government for demanding that Meta shut down the popular social media page Muslim, and we call on Meta to reverse its decision to surrender to this bigoted attack on free speech,” said Ahmed Mitchell of the National Council on American-Islamic Relations https://www.usermag.co/p/meta-bans-largest-muslim-news-page-in-india-muslim-news-bjp

2025-05-07 18:43:45 GMT

SCOOP: Meta bans largest Muslim news page in India. The company is working hand in hand with the government to censor social media influencers and journalists in the region for 'anti-national content' following the terror attack in Kashmir. https://www.usermag.co/p/meta-bans-largest-muslim-news-page-in-india-muslim-news-bjp

2025-04-10 15:11:06 GMT

The global influencer era is upon us, 'TheoBros', time-stamp trauma, TV TikTok-ification, nepo Bravolebrities, the first Kenbassador, dumb homes, influencers meet w/ Netanyahu, and ICE's plans for 'Amazon Prime, but with human beings' https://www.usermag.co/p/were-entering-the-era-of-the-global

2025-04-03 16:24:05 GMT

SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety." https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from

2025-04-01 23:44:58 GMT

Kids with smartphones have better mental health, study finds. Inside the Bop House, Tariffluencers, Gen Z's safe space, the latest meme stock, Grok dunking, India's Netflix, Ashton Hall and the rise of isolationist masculinity, and MORE -- all in today's newsletter https://www.usermag.co/p/kids-with-smartphones-have-better

2025-04-01 16:58:39 GMT

I wrote about how Palantir CEO Alex Karp is profiting from Israel’s genocide abroad, and wants to make money off of Trump’s immigration crackdown at home for @nprofile…3yxn https://zeteo.com/p/meet-the-tech-billionaire-just-as

2025-03-30 18:57:05 GMT

"We tend to assume the reason to use social media is to try to be an influencer, either you're Joe Rogan or you're a failure. But that's the wrong way to think about it," said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the University of Massachusetts' Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure https://www.usermag.co/p/the-secret-side-of-youtube

2025-03-27 16:21:33 GMT

Viralflation comes to YouTube, Dora the Explorer feet mukbang, IShowSpeed takes China, Big Balls cybercrime ring, 'influencer accent', IvyTok, AI-fueled fan fiction, Ghiblification, and a great new podcast on Section 230 -- All in today's newsletter!! https://www.usermag.co/p/viralflation-comes-to-youtube

2025-03-24 20:50:42 GMT

Vox's Kelsey Piper Is Indefensibly Ignorant About COVID-19. Liberal pundits abandon science to push conspiracies, once again https://www.panaccindex.info/p/voxs-kelsey-piper-is-indefensibly

2025-03-24 18:33:16 GMT

The Great 2024 Meme Depression, Ashton Hall lore, the new tween status symbol, White House Easter sponcon,
#recessionindicators, a lavender marriage app, and how to launder money and get away with it -- All in today's newsletter!!! https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-2024-meme-depression-meme-drought

2025-03-18 20:23:19 GMT

Remember “the #Resistance”?! I did a deep dive into 2017-2020 internet, the rise of the movement, its major figures, the resistance’s ultimate downfall, and why it crumbled.
https://youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE

2025-03-15 01:35:26 GMT

I need to log off for a while and sleep and stop getting upset over the internet.

2025-03-15 01:05:34 GMT

Idk how to QT this person but a big fuck you to everyone who treats independent creators like this. Every single social app is a Nazi bar & I cannot afford to operate on ghost, which also doesn’t offer many of the features I need. Subscribing to me directly so Substack doesn’t receive a cut has ALWASY been an option, but to punish an independent creator for the platforms they’re forced to rely on by refusing to share their reporting that holds power to account is DEEPLY fucked up and disgusting
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2025-03-15 01:01:21 GMT

“Using AI to surveil and silence speech has long been raised as a boogeyman by privacy advocates—something that could happen, in theory. Now, it is actually happening, and anyone can be a target for anything they might say online.” https://www.usermag.co/p/ai-generated-smear-campaigns-yale-university-suspended-helyeh-doutaghi-law-school-scholar-ai-generated-news-website-false-claims

2025-03-15 00:43:45 GMT

I wrote about Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar who was suspended by Yale Law School after an Israeli AI-generated news website known for spreading disinfo, claimed that she was a member of a terrorist organization. https://www.usermag.co/p/ai-generated-smear-campaigns-yale-university-suspended-helyeh-doutaghi-law-school-scholar-ai-generated-news-website-false-claims

2025-03-14 14:31:43 GMT

Full bush fashion, blind box cults, Airbnb for clothing, Alex Cooper's new dating show, VR solitary confinement, non-boring NYC influencers, baby tech, Gruber vs Apple, and more in today’s newsletter https://www.usermag.co/p/ai-generated-smear-campaigns-yale-university-suspended-helyeh-doutaghi-law-school-scholar-ai-generated-news-website-false-claims

2025-03-12 17:15:19 GMT

Meta rep flagged "critiques of tech industry figures" as "sensitive or controversial content." I spoke to @nprofile…dks9 about concerns over how free Meta's new "free speech" policies really are https://www.usermag.co/p/meta-rep-flagged-critiques-of-tech-industry-figures-as-sensitive-or-controversial-content

2025-03-11 00:52:41 GMT

From 2021 to 2024 we witnessed things like RICO charges being levied at protesters fighting against "cop city" in Atlanta, mask bans that lock disabled people out of public life, and young college students facing federal charges for peaceful protests, again, all under Democratic leadership. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-attacks-on-free-speech-should

2025-03-11 00:52:20 GMT

There are plenty of mind boggling clips circulating from Sam Seder’s Jubilee debate, but the Trump supporters did so poorly that the online right has now convinced themselves that the conservatives in the video were actually the leftists and that Sam was the conservative, debasing the woke left with facts and logic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js15xgK4LIE

2025-03-10 20:06:59 GMT

The attacks on free speech should terrify us all, plus Pipe Rock Theory, Beta babies, the toy collectible boom, re-buttonification, a Portnoy memoir, and Ye Squad vs the Bruzz House -- all in today's newsletter https://www.usermag.co/p/the-attacks-on-free-speech-should

2025-03-07 14:23:50 GMT

I wrote about how right wing creators are dominating the coverage of Lively vs Baldoni and how it has become a massive growth engine for the right wing media pipeline.
Liberal creators are either ignoring the biggest story in pop culture or regurgitating Candace Owens’ coverage to their audiences. https://www.usermag.co/p/right-wing-creators-are-dominating-lively-baldoni-coverage-tiktok-youtube-metoo

2025-03-06 08:05:53 GMT

Bonafidemasks.com, which is where I get all my KN95s from is having a 25% off sale + free shipping! They have tons of colors and styles (and full N95s too).
STOCK UP NOW!! 😷 Covid is raging and disabling millions, not to mention all the other airborne disease, pollution, etc. Masking is solidarity https://bonafidemasks.com/

2025-03-05 18:56:08 GMT

I went deep on the Peterverse(!) and wrote about what the rise of thousands of Peter Griffin-themed AI generated niche educational accounts run by children tells us about the future of the internet and online community https://www.usermag.co/p/a-deep-dive-into-the-peterverse

2025-03-04 04:42:58 GMT

Viral claims about family influencers fleeing the state of California are completely false. TikToks and YouTube videos have amassed millions of views pushing this conspiracy.
My article debunking it only has.... 2 shares. Journalism feels so fruitless sometimes. https://www.usermag.co/p/no-family-vloggers-are-not-fleeing-california-over-a-child-labor-law-viral-tiktok-false

2025-03-04 03:21:35 GMT

I just need 300 more subscribers to get to 40k on YouTube, which is 40% of the way to my ultimate goal of 100k!
I spend hours every week making videos about tech and online culture. YouTube is the platform I'm most focused on this year, so SUBSCRIBE TODAY!! https://www.youtube.com/@TaylorLorenz

2025-03-03 18:08:00 GMT

TikTokers’ outrage at parenting influencers isn’t actually about protecting children or ethics in content creation, it’s about pushing a moral panic for clicks and views— ironically the exact thing that they criticize influencers for. https://www.usermag.co/p/no-family-vloggers-are-not-fleeing-california-over-a-child-labor-law-viral-tiktok-false

2025-03-03 17:52:30 GMT

No, family vloggers are not fleeing California over a child labor law.
A viral TikTok conspiracy theory claims that family influencers are moving out of California because of a new law that mandates certain payments to child influencers. That is not true.
https://www.usermag.co/p/no-family-vloggers-are-not-fleeing-california-over-a-child-labor-law-viral-tiktok-false

2025-03-01 18:52:24 GMT

Ken Klippenstein joined me to break down why TikTok was REALLY banned, according to the very lawmakers who banned it. It was never about China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sht8_uHPSWo

2025-02-28 14:31:53 GMT

I wrote about the Epstein files influencer 'clusterfuck' https://www.usermag.co/p/the-epstein-files-influencer-disaster-chaya-raichik-fail

2025-02-27 20:57:41 GMT

I love Fox News' complete inability to ever recognize my sarcasm https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/7-craziest-stories-from-our-shortest-month
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2025-02-26 15:12:15 GMT

I interviewed the middle school podcast stars MD Foodie Boyz about their Dave Portnoy dream collab, growing up on Theo Von and Rogan, and their hopes to squash the Drake vs Kendrick beef on the pod. https://www.usermag.co/p/meet-the-md-foodie-boyz

2025-02-23 19:12:32 GMT

Ed Yong is such a real one <3 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/magazine/ed-yong-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.Wrq7.R5L0fwPg8N5l&smid=url-share
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2025-02-22 05:56:09 GMT

SCOOP: Ashley St Clair sues Elon Musk for custody of new son. Musk is pictured with his latest baby in a lawsuit filed by St Clair, seeking sole custody and paternity.
I obtained the filings and the first photo of Musk with his new son, who he has only met three times and who he has never once asked St Clair about. https://www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashley-st-clair-sues-elon-musk

2025-02-20 13:13:06 GMT

I interviewed Julia Black about the rise of pronatalism in Silicon Valley, plus a new "boring reality" AI, Boomer panic, doom spending, war robot turned DJ, and why there’s no “alt-left pipeline" -- all in today's newsletter!! https://www.usermag.co/p/the-billionaire-baby-boom

2025-02-17 18:44:12 GMT

A fascinating peek inside YouTube’s ecosystem,
Apple Watch ankle monitors,
Power Rangers fanfic,
A Shopify for filmmakers,
Kai Cenat's 'streamer university,'
How Club Shay Shay took over the airwaves+ more
All in today’s newsletter!! https://www.usermag.co/p/whats-really-happening-on-youtube

2025-02-14 20:17:01 GMT

The female creator safety tax, puppygirl hacker polycule, Alix-on-Alex crime, Uber for bodyguards, Trump slopaganda, and the truth behind Spotify's "ghost artists" — all in today’s newsletter https://www.usermag.co/p/elon-musk-the-dadfluencer-the-female-creator-safety-tax

2025-02-13 16:46:51 GMT

My first piece for Zeteo is out! I wrote about Elon Musk’s attempt to rebrand himself from a ruthless, calculating billionaire to a down-home family man by using his toddler son. https://zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-the-dadfluencer-the-billionaire

2025-02-07 19:53:10 GMT

"Silicon Valley billionaires like Marc Andreessen talk about 'high agency' people as if they’re some superior class and the traits they carry are innate, which reads a bit weird to me considering how fond those people are of eugenics." https://www.usermag.co/p/high-agency-silicon-valleys-new-hot-buzzword

2025-02-07 18:10:18 GMT

Tech's hot new buzzword, FYPcore, high-end meat sticks, the NFL's fashion editor, armpit fetishism, content house algospeak, and Musk's own Mar-a-Lago — all in today’s newsletter! https://www.usermag.co/p/high-agency-silicon-valleys-new-hot-buzzword

2025-01-24 16:45:25 GMT

Gen Z’s Jerry Springer show, IRL ChatGPT sexbots, Humanity’s Last Exam, YouTube at 4x, yak wool vs glass skin, and the rise of wedding QR codes.
Read all about it in today’s newsletter!! 👇👇👇 https://www.usermag.co/p/gen-zs-jerry-springer-show

2025-01-24 00:31:08 GMT

“The death of ‘websites’ and outlets that value true creativity and diversity in coverage — largely at the whims of ghoulish executives and private equity vulturism — has created in me a stinging grief that I cannot seem to shake.” https://lindseyadler.substack.com/p/ten-years-in-a-crumbling-industry

2024-12-23 16:34:57 GMT

Misogyny is at the core of these types of smear campaigns targeting women, yet media coverage consistently and intentionally avoids naming it. https://www.usermag.co/p/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-smear-campaign-misogyny-amber-heard-gamergate

2024-12-10 21:12:40 GMT

Ken Klippenstein has obtained and published Luigi's full manifesto.
"Many have illuminated the corruption and greed... decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

2024-12-06 02:32:15 GMT

Major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages down following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson https://www.404media.co/multiple-major-health-insurance-companies-take-down-leadership-pages-following-murder-of-united-healthcare-ceo/

2024-12-03 06:22:35 GMT

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies" https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/european-federation-of-journalists-to-stop-posting-content-on-x-386598/

2024-11-27 05:31:51 GMT

“Donaldson will no longer be considered untouchable by fans and other YouTubers. Any future ventures will be highly scrutinized. I think we could eventually see him attempt a full Zuckaissance-style rebrand in order to distance himself from this whole thing.” https://www.usermag.co/p/lets-check-in-on-mrbeast

2024-11-22 17:35:54 GMT

At the creator level, the live streaming market is also becoming more decentralized. The top 5% of streamers now account for 86% of total hours watched, which is notably down from 98% in 2019.
As viewers explore niche communities and new voices, the live streaming creator world is becoming more nichified (something that happened on YouTube too as it grew).
https://www.usermag.co/p/you-should-pay-attention-to-kai-cenat

2024-11-22 17:00:26 GMT

This past quarter, live streaming viewership reached 8.5 billion hours watched, a 12% year-over-year increase— biggest jump since the pandemic began
I wrote about how live streaming is becoming a bigger part of our media diet and how ppl crave participatory live media https://www.usermag.co/p/you-should-pay-attention-to-kai-cenat

2024-11-10 01:11:17 GMT

Over the past few days, thousands of Threads users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism.
I wrote about how Threads became ground zero for election hacking conspiracies and how Metas decision to restrict journalists and news content has exacerbated the problem. https://www.usermag.co/p/metas-threads-overrun-with-liberal-election-fraud-conspiracies

2024-10-15 03:06:02 GMT

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@npub16dy…rqr6 yeah I think that’s likely tbh

2024-10-14 23:23:52 GMT

“Powerful organizations… decry ‘threats’ to democracy in the form of foreign interference, influence, disinformation, misinformation, and even conspiracies. That ultimately undermines the most powerful engine of our democracy, which is freedom of speech and expression.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-fbi-knocked-on-my-door

2024-08-25 16:45:05 GMT

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@npub12q0…cg4m I didn’t know Mastodon did that! Is it a setting or is it default? Would love to turn it on

2024-07-30 16:43:32 GMT

I wrote about how Senate Democrats are spearheading an effort to brief online influencers on key policy initiatives instead of relying on traditional media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/30/democratic-senators-influencers-laws-initiatives/

2024-07-22 22:31:18 GMT

“One coconut emoji too many, and Harris HQ could be veering into cringe, losing the coveted brain rot demographic.” https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-coconut-pilled-brat-memes-charli-xcx-cringe-2024-7

2024-07-10 17:25:58 GMT

NEW: NATO, the State Department, and the DoD are bringing dozens of TikTok, YouTube, and IG content creators to the NATO summit this week to meet with top officials from the most powerful institutions in D.C.
At the White House, the creators met w/ John Kirby, President Biden’s national security communications adviser. They attended a briefing at the Pentagon. At least two creators were granted interviews with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/10/nato-summit-influencers-summit-dc/

2024-07-09 02:27:00 GMT

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@npub1dee…m8nm Someone else just recommended him too! I'll subscribe

2024-07-08 23:59:57 GMT

So can anyone who’s been following the controversy over whether Biden should resign or not give me the state of things?
Is he going to be the Democratic nominee or is he probably going to be forced out? Googling this question does not yield helpful results and I’m very interested in what people who have actually been following it all think will happen

2024-07-07 18:43:45 GMT

Amid bipartisan support for restricting teenagers’ access to social networks, despite zeeo scientific evidence showing such restrictions would help the younger generations mental health, young queer people who rely on social platforms as a lifeline are threatened with isolation and loss of connection https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/07/australia-teen-social-media-ban-age

2024-06-23 20:26:26 GMT

“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.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/for-biden-and-the-media-everything

2024-06-13 22:01:51 GMT

“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.” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/silence-from-prominent-left-outlets

2024-06-05 19:13:01 GMT

"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." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/04/x-twitter-porn-policy-under-18-opt-in

2024-05-30 19:58:39 GMT

On this week's Power User podcast @npub1sfj…u45j joins me to go deep on Balaji, "Tech Zionism", and billionaire VCs plans to transform S.F. into a sovereign state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpZdrv1P-U

2024-05-29 17:55:39 GMT

TikTok executives proposed giving the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south.
The Biden administration declined, forfeiting potential influence over one of the world’s most popular apps in favor of shutting it down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/29/tiktok-cfius-proposal-rejected/

2024-05-04 21:28:50 GMT

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@npub1nfm…qdx8 it's not Putin funded! It's literally just backed by Marc Andreessen and all the other usual right wing rich people who back things like this

2024-05-01 00:55:03 GMT

“The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181107/college-protests-israel-gaza-media-coverage-shameful

2024-04-17 03:39:02 GMT

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@npub1l0k…2u9u with all due respect, this is a deeply deeply ableist thing to say. I hope you can gain some empathy and learn about mental illness

2024-04-05 23:40:34 GMT

A new survey highlights how fear-based parenting drives phone-based childhoods. https://reason.com/2024/03/27/parents-dont-want-schools-to-confiscate-kids-phones/

2024-04-05 20:13:01 GMT

Bari Weiss's media company, which has pushed
- Covid denialism
- Railed against public health measures
- Claimed women w invisible illnesses were suffering from "anxiety"
just launched a new health column written by Weiss's wife who has zero background in the health or science world
https://www.thefp.com/p/nellie-bowles-welcome-to-free-press-health

2024-04-03 05:30:57 GMT

NYC's AI weapon scanners produce 85% false positives https://hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons-scanners-pilot-false-positives

2024-03-20 01:35:13 GMT

"Maybe the most significant effect of that Russian op was to give American elites what Kevin Baker calls 'psy-op brain' -- the belief that any online political expression with which they are uncomfortable must be the product of a foreign psychological operation. ... Israel, portrayed badly? Gotta be a psy-op!" https://maxread.substack.com/p/four-unpersuasive-arguments-against

2024-03-19 23:31:38 GMT

DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY GOOD TECH/BUSINESS EDITORS???
my boss (who I would crucify myself for bc he’s the best editor I’ve ever had) is retiring and they’re hiring for TWO tech editor roles at WaPo (one in DC and one in SF) 🙏🏻
https://washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/washingtonpostcareers/job/Technology-Policy-Editor_JR-90274661
https://washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/washingtonpostcareers/job/Technology-Companies-Editor_JR-90274660

2024-03-19 18:48:48 GMT

Facebook made a UI tweak to bring back the "Poke" button, and found that use of Pokes went up 13x -- mostly among users 18-29, who had probably never even used Poke the first time around https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-poke-feature-gen-z-2024-3

2024-03-15 03:23:33 GMT

Why you should care about the TikTok bill:
"Once national security is invoked, it gives almost unfettered latitude for the government to sidestep First Amendment concerns, because now this is almost like a wartime footing"
“It does feel in that sense that we’re going back to some kind of Cold War-like media environment, where we’re now going to erect boundaries in the service of national security"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/14/tik-tok-bill-constitutional-questions/

2024-03-12 20:15:10 GMT

“These guys are these delicate narcissists, out in Northern California, and they’re just like: Not only do we not want to be criticized, but we would like to be celebrated because we are visionary geniuses.”
I chatted with director Adam Frucci about his new movie that skewers Silicon Valley venture capitalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/03/12/disruptors-adam-frucci-silicon-valley/

2024-03-12 16:22:00 GMT

As Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, says in this thread, it's disturbing that a completely insane conspiracy theory about Kate Middleton swapping her face in a photo has 38M views.
People who actually understand photo manipulation have debunked this repeatedly (see Eliot's thread), but it has no effect. The truth truly does not matter to people because they want to believe the conspiracy and cannot be convinced otherwise. https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1767315138221146553

2024-03-12 15:51:45 GMT

Someone should show this piece to editors of The New Republic, NY Mag, Slate & all the other media orgs who have published dangerous and anti scientific conspiracy theories about this disease.
This from @npub1seg…rjq2 is what ACTUAL reporting looks like https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services

2024-03-04 23:07:26 GMT

The exclusion of Covid in major news reporting about the global hospital and healthcare system collapse is an active choice, based either in denial or collusion, and it’s happening everywhere.
Read this piece.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/unmitigated-covid-is-overwhelming

2024-03-01 17:17:28 GMT

Thank u Will. And yes, this is how conspiracy theories and smear campaigns work! It’s exhausting to be targeted in this way just for doing my job.
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2024-02-28 23:14:11 GMT

Some lady made up an entire fan fiction story about me that has zero basis in reality, she made *every single thing* about her story up, making up conversations and people that don’t exist. It’s delusion and I hope she gets the help she needs because making up fantasies like this about a person u don’t know is not normal. It’s scary honestly.

2024-02-25 18:12:32 GMT

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@npub1xxe…0p39 @npub15x4…3p3l this story definitely does not “give a monster a mouthpiece.” People should read the actual story https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/24/libs-tiktok-oklahoma-nonbinary-teen-death/

2024-02-24 16:39:24 GMT

I sat down with Chaya Raichik of LibsofTikTok to talk about Nex's death, her role in Oklahoma politics, her beliefs on gender, the great replacement theory, sex education, her false accusations against the Uvalde shooter, why she and Seth Dillon cut ties and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-40gDBRx0&t=2359s
Read my latest story on her impact in Oklahoma: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/24/libs-tiktok-oklahoma-nonbinary-teen-death/

2024-02-15 19:10:32 GMT

Mainstreaming Covid denialism/Covid denialists is now leading to the mainstreaming of full on AIDS denialism. This is what happens when the media and public boost Covid denying conspiracy theorists https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg543y/joe-rogan-and-bret-weinstein-promote-aids-denialism-to-an-audience-of-millions

2024-02-09 18:04:59 GMT

Meta is downranking/hiding political content on Threads. The company says Threads will “not recommend any content/accounts that post about politics.”
Here’s the issue: what counts as “politics” is often any news abt people who have had their whole existence politicized, such as news about Black people, LGBTQ people, disabled ppl, women, etc. Climate scientists, public health experts etc also considered “political” https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/meta-political-content-moderation-threads

2024-02-07 23:18:19 GMT

"Any social media platform that dips under 10% poster will fail, but as the early days of Bluesky demonstrated, if you over index on posters, you will have endless fucking chaos. It is possible that posters are deeply unwell. Certainly they are far too online." https://www.theverge.com/24058356/trolls-social-media-commenter-lurker-reply-guy-threads

2024-02-07 10:08:11 GMT

"It is clear that there is no platform coming to save journalism. And there are an increasingly large number of platforms who seem intent on killing it" https://www.platformer.news/arc-search-quora-poe-perpexity-journalism-web-future/

2024-02-07 09:51:00 GMT

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@npub1djv…74n2 @npub15x4…3p3l it’s about the COVID vax specifically, which doesn’t prevent transmission and is not a sufficient mitigation strategy for the disease. Def suggest reading the piece!

2024-02-06 01:12:48 GMT

Apple Vision Pro users alarmed to learn that VR porn doesn't currently work on the $3,500 device https://www.404media.co/a-3-500-chastity-belt-early-apple-vision-pro-adopters-alarmed-to-learn-vr-porn-doesnt-work/

2024-02-04 06:21:21 GMT

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2024-01-17 17:03:35 GMT

Looking to talk to a search/SEO expert for a story (ideally with understanding of entertainment news). If that's you please email me your best contact number on taylor.lorenz at washpost.com!

2024-01-16 23:51:58 GMT

"Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on Palestinians who had gathered to receive flour brought by UN trucks. Fifty Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured" https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6098

2024-01-16 21:38:07 GMT

Chicago-area Tesla charging stations are lined with dead cars and have essentially turned into car graveyards as temperatures have dropped to the negative double digits: “A bunch of dead robots out here” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chicago-area-tesla-charging-stations-024817227.html

2024-01-15 09:28:17 GMT

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Who are some other celebrities who have gone right wing after being “cancelled”? Trying to make a list for something

2024-01-13 21:05:28 GMT

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2024-01-12 01:21:40 GMT

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Newton stressed that it wasn’t simply a handful of Nazi newsletters that made him leave. Platfomer’s analysis found dozens of far right publications advocating for the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and other violent ideologies. Newton also said he was troubled by the founders’ “edgelord branding", which he believes has attracted more bad actors to the platform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/11/substack-platformer-nazis/

2024-01-10 07:10:23 GMT

“The consequences of discarding all Covid precautions are becoming clearer, as more people get repeated infections and long-term symptoms, amid an alarming spike in heart problems among healthy young people. People are getting sick more often.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/177849/biden-democrats-covid-pandemic-2024?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social

2024-01-05 05:45:23 GMT

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Personally, I’d like to have quote posts as an option. I think it would be crucial to allow people to opt out of the feature, but I do think quote posts could allow for a lot of really great and thoughtful, nuanced convos on here that are currently too hard to have in the comments (and the way things are now replies are closer to a comment section). I really love Mastodon, but it would be great to see the platform experiment more (again, while giving ppl the easy and clear option of opting out!)

2024-01-05 05:41:43 GMT

Screenshotting this post 👇🏻 in order to quote post it! I don’t know where people get the idea that quote posting = dunks, personally I feel that that opinion is just Twitter brain.
Every major social platform from Tumblr, to Facebook, to LinkedIn and more has the ability to natively quote post. This is because the primary use of such a feature is to amplify information w added context or to open a new line of discussion. Replies are used far more often for harassment but we don’t ban replies!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/701/729/330/867/935/original/8b5a997413ec2ba7.png

2023-12-23 16:04:31 GMT

Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

2023-12-22 20:33:38 GMT

"Why do we Palestinians have to film our own country getting bombed and our own people getting killed, just for the world to watch silently?” asked Plestia Alaqad, a 22-year-old freelance journalist whose Instagram account has 4.6 million followers https://time.com/6549544/israel-and-hamas-the-media-war/

2023-12-21 20:45:44 GMT

“Meta’s policies and practices have been silencing voices in support of Palestine and Palestinian human rights on Instagram and Facebook in a wave of heightened censorship on social media” https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and