Taylor Lorenz

Technology columnist at The Washington Post. Previously tech reporter at The New York Times and The Atlantic News and opinions about #technology, #internetculture, #media, #news, #tech, #twitter #journalist

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2024-08-01 22:25:16

Logan Paul calling a cisgender woman “a man” and “the purest form of evil” because the Olympic athlete doesn’t conform to an extremely rigid set of beauty standards
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/889/109/496/679/558/original/6dcb3a187aa6429d.png

2024-07-30 16:43:32

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/

2024-07-21 05:13:13

“Social media is designed to get you to post—and being a chronic poster sucks.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91154019/my-28000-follower-twitter-account-was-hacked-and-it-changed-my-life-for-the-better

2024-07-08 23:59:57

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

2024-05-30 19:58:39

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

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/

2024-05-14 23:15:06

“At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

2024-05-14 00:00:25

"The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/campus-gaza-protests-student-protesters-role-history

2024-05-12 06:50:33

Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California.
Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

2024-05-11 21:28:15

Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the government gave more money to Lockheed Martin than the Department of Education https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt

2024-04-09 01:06:21

NewsGuard, which rates news orgs for credibility and quality, has downgraded the NYT for the first time bc it so often falsely presents opinion pieces as news columns.
This is no surprise to anyone who's followed David Leonhardt and The Morning's deeply partisan coverage of C*vid, which has pushed dangerous health misinfo in effort to push a political agenda, or the paper's highly skewed coverage of trans issues https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nmem5n9p88hmdp5362lo5/NYTimes-update-for-O-Shea.pdf

2024-02-24 16:39:24

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/

2024-02-07 10:08:11

"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/

2024-02-04 06:21:21

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2024-01-31 18:58:23

"At some level, this is just one of the asshole capitalists who are wrecking the world talking like the sort of asshole capitalist who would wreck the world. But there is a threat only barely latent in it, too." https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end

2024-01-17 04:57:11

"Like me, my friend is in his 30s and was fit and healthy when he got Long COVID. Like me, he had the much-vaunted 'hybrid immunity' of all the vaccines plus previous infection.
Like me, he has been abandoned by the leaders of our government, from the most progressive politicians to the most conservative, who seem intent on maintaining the façade that COVID is 'over' and that things are back to 'normal.'
The problem is, it’s not true. We are not back to normal."
https://48hills.org/2024/01/i-have-long-covid-and-sen-scott-wiener-wouldnt-help/

2024-01-16 21:38:07

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

2024-01-05 08:28:03

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2024-01-05 05:41:43

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

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

2023-12-13 02:35:50

The IDF operates a Telegram channel called "72 Virgins – Uncensored" that posts sadistic images of Israelis murdering Palestinians & mutilating their bodies: “Burning their mothers…exterminating the cockroaches”
Videos show Israelis rampaging through a hospital hunting for more Palestinians to kill https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-12-12/ty-article/.premium/graphic-videos-and-incitement-how-the-idf-is-misleading-israelis-on-telegram/0000018c-5ab5-df2f-adac-febd01c30000

2023-11-27 19:56:42

The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizovs/

2023-11-25 22:16:52

Been a heavy user of all the Twitter alternatives for a minute now and I gotta say Mastodon is my favorite. There are definitely some features I’d like to see here (like quote posts and a DM inbox), but the community on Mastodon seems to have the best vibe and there are so many smart techies that it’s been the most helpful for finding sources.

2023-11-13 17:21:25

"Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol. Once that happens people will be able to enjoy the best features of Threads across platforms." https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/

2023-11-01 23:07:57

Excellent story on how HBO execs used an army of secret fake accounts on Twitter to harass TV critics who gave poor reviews to their shows
It shows why people shouldn't just write off anonymous comments online as just "trolls" — some of them are coordinated campaigns by extremely powerful people with an axe to grind.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

2023-09-22 01:41:04

Still trying to find outdoor spaces in NYC and SF to host book events at the week after next.
If you have any connections to one please DM me!! I have zero budget (the publisher doesn’t cover or organize stuff like this) so looking for someone (anyone!) to help me out!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

2023-09-18 00:01:56

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Any tech people please!! I’m on deadline 😅🙏🏻

2023-09-17 23:53:53

Any smart tech/product people out there who can give me some quick commentary for a story related to Elon’s mistakes with Twitter? Please DM me ur best phone number!! Or send to me on Taylor.Lorenz@washpost.com Looking to chat right now 🙏🏻

2023-09-13 16:24:37

The first excerpt from my new book is out!!!!!!!!! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/julia-allison-first-online-influencer-vilified-1234823324/

2023-08-11 23:11:36

San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cruise-debauchery/