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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2024-07-09 20:33:10

"We criticise children for not going outside – while curtailing their freedoms and closing their spaces... the media landscape is dominated by news sources that mock and vilify young people as woke softies while also criminalising them."
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jul/09/its-not-them-its-us-the-real-reason-teens-are-addicted-to-video-games

2024-07-09 16:43:25

Meta is expanding its content moderation policies to remove posts attacking "Zionists."
Meta is now categorizing the term "Zionist" alongside other “protected characteristics,” including race or religion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-09/meta-to-remove-posts-that-use--zionist--to-attack-jewish-people

2024-07-08 22:13:35

Media orgs make such a fit over "misinformation" then print really dangerous misinfo in their own pages. Here, the LA Times falsely claims long covid prevalence is declining, but the study they link to literally refutes their own claim, showing that long covid cases are *not* declining. And, according to Household Pulse data, rates of Long COVID have significantly *increased* since last October. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-08/playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet

2024-07-07 18:43:45

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

2024-07-06 22:58:21

Anyone given this app a go? Curious how these niche social networks will perform https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/noplace-a-mashup-of-twitter-and-myspace-for-gen-z-hits-no-1-on-the-app-store/

2024-06-26 17:05:03

"Someone assaulted Burns in front of police and stole her phone while it was still recording. They threatened to come to her home, to rape and behead her, called her a whore, called other reporters fa****s, and beat them. Our reporter... was punched in the head during a gang assault... By Monday morning, the President of the United States, the Governor of California, and the Mayor of Los Angeles had all lied to the world about what happened." https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/opinion-the-presidents-lies-about-a-pro-palestine-demonstration-threw-our-reporters-under-the-bus-what-now/

2024-06-23 01:30:25

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. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nyt-covid-opinion-coverage/

2024-06-15 20:23:19

“COVID isn’t merely 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, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise.” https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans

2024-06-13 22:01:51

“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

"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

2024-06-05 06:32:12

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
https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-meta-engineer-sues-company-saying-he-was-fired-over-handling-gaza-content-2024-06-05/

2024-06-03 23:26:56

Breaking:
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2024-05-28 03:29:10

“For most millennials, the old material markers of midlife, like owning a home or spending 20-plus years at one job, are a nostalgic fantasy. Even as we negotiate gray hairs and a changing body, little has changed in our career, home, and money prospects.” https://www.thecut.com/article/millennials-midlife-crisis-money-job-security.html

2024-05-25 20:22:00

“We know that it’s up, & it’s up earlier”
“The more times you get COVID, the more likely Long Covid will develop," Hudson said. And ‘it does seem like people in their 30s & 40s are the ones who are more likely to get Long Covid" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-25/early-signs-of-rising-covid-in-california-as-new-flirt-subvariants-dominate

2024-05-16 23:37:58

"Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina

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

2024-05-13 12:08:00

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests

2024-05-13 12:03:11

“It explains why you get pathologized and called everything from a doomer to a snowflake for caring about anything but yourself” https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

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

2024-05-10 10:44:30

"Crushing the symbols of human creativity to produce a homogenized branded slab is pretty much where the tech industry is at in 2024" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/08/apple-ipad-ad-tim-cook-backlash/

2024-05-08 06:04:56

“The point at which COVID proved it would continue to evade our vaccines was the point at which liberals (and many leftists) decided harming vulnerable people was ok, after all.” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant

2024-05-05 18:30:40

Twitch streamers are providing real-time unfiltered coverage of the student protests in a way that challenges mainstream media narratives. https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

2024-05-05 02:16:05

"The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. No arrests had been made in connection with the attack" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html

2024-05-04 21:27:18

Even Elon is sick of her shit
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/384/935/359/704/692/original/5069fc82ddc33cb9.jpg

2024-05-02 19:42:44

“This CNN segment on Wednesday about the pro-Palestine student protest movement is one of the most jaw-dropping, poisonous pieces of propaganda I have ever seen on a U.S. news outlet.”
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/cnns-disgraceful-propaganda

2024-05-01 00:55:03

“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

2024-04-30 16:27:44

“The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept

2024-04-28 18:35:59

“We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-hostage-deal-charges-ex-spokesman-of-families-forum/

2024-04-24 07:24:57

“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

2024-04-19 20:12:45

“They found that, relative to patients who had fully recovered, those with Long Covid showed a pattern of immune system activation indicating inflammation of myeloid cells and activation of a family of immune system proteins called the complement system.” https://scitechdaily.com/blood-biomarkers-reveal-the-hidden-world-of-long-covid/

2024-04-17 03:37:49

As someone who covers manufactured outrage campaigns for a living, journalists desperately need to learn how to properly cover these campaigns.
These grafs in NYT don’t give nearly enough context to who Chris Rufo is, or his agenda/track record. Quoting ppl like Rufo as neutral/honest actors is a huge mistake not only bc it launders their abusive, ideologically driven campaigns to mainstream liberals, but also bc it leaves readers less informed abt the motivations behind these attacks.
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2024-04-16 00:55:40

"The precipitous decline in traffic to conservative publications raises a larger and possibly unanswerable question: Did these operations ever really hold the political and cultural clout that critics ascribed to them at their peak?" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/