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Tech reporter, host of Power User podcast on Vox Media. Buy my book EXTREMELY ONLINE (out now!) Subscribe to my YouTube 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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I love how doctors are like, if u arrive more than 5 min late we reserve the right to cancel your appointment, but if u arrive on time we have the right to make u wait for hours to see the doc
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Fox News hosted an entire 5 person "expert" round table on my decision as a medically vulnerable person to wear a mask at the airport. I'm laughing so hard
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People will say stuff like “well at least if the climate is collapsing and wildfire smoke makes breathing hazardous I won’t have to go to work…” I think in your heart you know that’s not true
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Long Covid occurs in about a third of Covid survivors and is now the third leading neurologic disorder in the United States.
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Twitter is paying high profile far right content creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app.
Our story:
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Do people who think getting reinfected with deadly viruses improves your immune system also think smoking improves ur lung function and getting regular sunburns improves skin health? Because that’s how u all sound
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One reason I chose to publish the full interview and not just certain comments for my story on the harms Chaya’s rhetoric is causing LGBTQ ppl is bc I *knew* she’d try to chop the footage up as much as she could to push her nonsense. Watch the full interview, it speaks for itself
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I am laughing so hard
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At every turn Musk does basically the exact opposite of the things that made TikTok a success. Fascinating to watch
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Go ahead and drop all the conspiracies about me you want, it only adds to my lore
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It goes without saying, but vulnerable people are absolutely not “moving on” from the pandemic despite the gross and extremely biased narrative that the media keeps trying to push.
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She can do all the desperate choppy editing she wants to try and save face, but once you watch the full video it falls right apart
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People in NYC will look u in the eye and earnestly suggest meeting up at 9pm
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Right wing news sites and disinformation influencers have been saying that, despite preaching COVID precautions, I wear an “ineffective” sparkle mesh mask to events. In fact, I’m wearing these rhinestone masks OVER a fit tested N95 respirator.
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Yeah man, she definitely won as long as u don’t listen to a single response she gave to me
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It’s very wild how quickly many self purported leftists will start spouting far right talking points and pulling stuff straight from from Fox News when pressed on issues surrounding Covid
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“New evidence has revealed that anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues including clots, inflammation, and arrhythmias. This risk persists even in healthy people long after the illness has passed.” (Yes, even if you’re vaccinated)
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It’s wild to see what a fish out of water he is on the internet: no jump cuts, no background music, no catchy thumbnail or video title. Not sure how he’s going to stack up against even an average streamer or youtuber.
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CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference where they didn’t take Covid precautions
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“Young ppl are obviously not really supposed to die of heart attack. They’re not really supposed to have heart attacks at all,” Cheng explained that the virus can greatly impact the cardiovascular system, causing a spike in heart attacks among young ppl
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This makes it even more clear what sort of ideology Musk is pushing
🚨 NEWS: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show *on Twitter* with help from former Fox News staff. He will forgo at least $25 million owed to him by Fox Corp. in order to break non-compete clause.
@PuckNews
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WATCH: I sat down w Chaya Raichik of LibsofTikTok to talk about Nex's death, her role in Okla. politics, her beliefs on gender, the great replacement theory, sex ed, her false accusations against the Uvalde shooter, why she and Seth Dillon cut ties & more
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The anti remote work propaganda is getting ridiculous
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Wild how quickly the sponsored tweets in my feed went from ads for mainstream brands and silly gadgets a year ago, to tweets pushing anti vaxx conspiracies, anti LGBTQ messaging, and scams
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Anti maskers/covid denialists get SO heated when any of us medically vulnerable ppl posts a photo of ourselves out in the world staying safe w a mask on. They really want us locked away or to endanger our lives just so that they can forget there’s a deadly/disabling virus around
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Musk resorting to essentially bribing big accts to stay on Twitter
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Twitter just explicitly condoning hate speech at this point
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The fact that the TSA at JFK is forcing all passengers to remove their masks before they even step up to the security desk where they check ur boarding pass is so dangerous! I can’t believe they’re doing stuff like this in 2023 😵💫
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It’s truly shocking to see how successful the far right has been in radicalizing “leftists” on Twitter. Just a direct line now in terms of language used around Covid, trans people, and abortion/misogyny/women from far right internet corners to mainstream leftists spaces
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The CDC held its own super spreader event
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It's wild how quickly a certain brand of leftist went from "healthcare is a human right!!!" to "disabled people should shut up and die already and stop asking for basic Covid protections bc I am fine with normalizing mass death/disability as long as it doesn't disrupt my brunch"
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(I’m in Cannes this week for work) Just landed at the Nice airport and this guy was taking pics and signing autographs. Who is he??
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“The numbers are totally and completely bogus. It’s all completely made up. It feels like they’re arbitrarily writing checks to ppl they like, which is not a sustainable creator strategy,” said a former Twitter executive who worked on creator partnerships
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Who will it be
Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!
My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.
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This is so funny he really wants to force users off the platform
Elon Musk says unverified users will be limited to reading 600 tweets per day, verified users up to 6,000 tweets per day
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So fascinated by the self identified leftists on here who are vehemently against collectivism, human rights, and community care
*Taylor Lorenz voice* wow, hope you guys had fun over Pride weekend during an *ONGOING* pandemic …
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This pandemic has revealed the absolute zero respect or care most MDs/healthcare professionals have for their medically vulnerable patients. So glad my immunologist would never be caught dead at a super spreader event, but sadly he and others seem to be the minority
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It look less than 72 hours
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Extremists understand the value of generating content with these types of campaigns, it's not enough to go around and destroy Target pride displays, everything must be captured and repackaged to spread online
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The same people who decry the mental health effects of “lockdown” (US never had an actual lockdown) which lasted a few months in 2020 are perfectly happy to subject disabled people to permanent house arrest rather than take the most basic safety measures
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@LaurenWeberHP
@caitlinsgilbert
& I dug into thousands of internal documents showing how a small group of conservative doctors promoted views rejected by the medical establishment to shape policies on abortion and trans rights
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Notable doctors and scientists have written to the NYT, individually and in groups, to debunk Leonhardt’s dangerously wrong coverage of the pandemic. They say that he cherry-picks sources and data and promotes dangerous and deadly health misinformation.
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Follow me on LinkedIn where I’ll be revealing my family’s secret power structure and the 10 easy steps we used to take control of the internet
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the chyron says I "melted down" at unmasked passengers, that straight up did not happen. I didn't even speak to another passenger (why would I!?) and I wasn't the only one masking on my flight. Everyone on the plane was normal. Fox is always making up total fiction about my life
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Watch the full interview:
And read my story on the immense harm LGBTQ people in the state of Oklahoma are experiencing right now:
"Sounds like you do want to tell people what to do in their house": Taylor Lorenz presses Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik to explain her issue with trans adults.
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People don’t realize you can be fully vaccinated, getting Covid just a month after your fourth shot, and have kidney failure/long term and permanent damage to your kidneys from a single “mild” Covid infection.
"Long-term effect of COVID-19 infection on kidney function among COVID-19 patients followed in post-COVID recovery clinic in British Columbia, Canada"
➡️"People with
#LongCovid
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It’s my book release day and my two biggest fans can’t keep my name out of their mouths!!!
ORDER UR COPY OF EXTREMELY ONLINE TODAY!!!
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Thank you to everyone in the audience who wore their mask to my
#VidConAN23
panels! It means so much to me and others who are medically vulnerable. I hope that in the future events like VidCon can be made safe and accessible for all
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I feel so bad for the boomers at home being subjected to this. Never seen a group of people more triggered over something so innocuous
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A single citizen in AL claimed that multiple ppl had died from a “boat jumping challenge” on TikTok & the national media ran dozens of stories and TV segments
But it was a lie. No such “challenge” existed, no deaths have been linked to TikTok
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Been talking to a lot of women recently who are also in their late 30s/40s about how weird it feels to be the same age as the men we dated were when we were in our early 20s. So many men in their 30s/40s use women in their early 20s to cling to their youth and it's gross
32 and dating a 23 year old fhdnxnckcjd I would rather jump off a building
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“I literally have to choose between lifesaving medical care and exposure to covid, which really isn’t a choice. It’s a high-risk situation being forced on me with little to no ability to consent.”
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To say nothing of the streamers like
@hasanthehun
and others who have done interactive streams on Twitch and YouTube (with no problems) to hundreds of thousands
"probably the biggest room that has ever been assembled online," says David Sacks of this new Twitter Space with Ron DeStantis and Elon Musk (first one didn't work and was canceled)
i have been in bigger Clubhouse rooms
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Robust blocking capabilities are always the top feature request from big creators across all platforms. It’s wild how absolutely hostile Musk is to content creators
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Need someone to ask for directions to this $5.7M mansion, I'd love to upgrade from my shitty rental
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Once again Dylan Mulvaney is on the right side of history 🔥
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@edyong209
Going to miss ur pieces so much, you are quite literally one of the only health and science reporters out there who actually speaks truth t to power. I sincerely hope you continue reporting on Covid and me/cfs, and so grateful for all of ur work and care <3
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How does this CNBC reporter make it seem like he agrees with Musk by saying “right” after Musk calls Bellingcat (one of the most respected investigative journalism outlets in the world) a psy op?!
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I feel like this guy should be working investigating war crimes or something, his talents are unreal
168 william st, nyc. you can order it by asking for "the rainbolt".
do not gatekeep.
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This is the most made up shit ever and I can't believe this reporter fell for it (but also yes I can)
A while ago, someone mentioned to me, offhandedly, that a friend of theirs had become akin to "the mother hen of the cancelled." Naturally, I was like, "I need to know everything about this."
That's how I met the Thought Criminals. (1/x)
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NPR’s decision to platform a piece about the difficulty of navigating life w a spouse who can’t dine indoors, instead of a piece about the difficulty of navigating a society that has made dining indoors unsafe for vulnerable groups, is just that- a decision, and a political one
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The Today Show ran an entire segment on a completely made up TikTok trend which they claimed was killing kids(!!) based on comments by a single random man in Alabama who refused to share any evidence of the trend citing HIPPA, and claimed TikTok was forcing kids to eat tide pods
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People suffering deserve more than a podcaster using their platform to dunk on disabled people and push ableist rhetoric. NO ONE is saying anyone who chooses to work while sick should “fuck off.” What disabled ppl were/are doing is critiquing an elected official w a massive…
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It’s very funny that my account on Twitter is so suppressed that a spam meme page I’m an admin on with less than 20k followers has had a bigger reach than my personal page since December when I got on Musk’s bad side
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Only a matter of time before some senator is screaming at the TikTok CEO about how the grimace shake TikTok trend is murdering children
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Millions of people are disabled and becoming disabled by long covid (many got sick bc they wrongly believed that being vaccinated meant you can't get long covid). There is still ZERO cure for long covid
Stanford Paxlovid clinical trial was stopped early because it wasn't effective in treating
#longCOVID
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This is disgusting, wrong and it's horrible to see the Guardian promoting such dangerous medical misinformation. Those w ME/CFS have unique physiological issues that make exercise/physical exertion EXTREMELY dangerous and harmful, it can put their bodies into a death spiral
Me: “Journalism can’t stoop any lower and get any lazier.”
*wakes up and opens the internet only to see this trash from
@rachela_hall
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@guardian
Giving so much space to discredited psychiatrists and barely any space from other knowledgeable clinicians in the space!!!
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Just absolutely wild how completely mainstream anti vaxx talking points have become thanks to far right and business interests pushing a pro-infection, normalizing mass death Covid strategy
That last sentence would have been right at home in an anti MMR article from 2019.
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~ * personal news * ~ My first book, EXTREMELY ONLINE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FAME, INFLUENCE, AND POWER ON THE INTERNET is officially available for preorder!! Please use this link, it will be out this fall from
@simonschuster
<3
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Can you guys keep my name out of ur mouths for literally just one day
This is the Taylor Lorenz defense
Publicly make insane claims and behave like an attention seeking lunatic online and then play the victim for sympathy when called out on it
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Seems like he’s given up all pretense on wooing advertisers back
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One weird thing about L.A. is how 30% of ppl you meet go by a completely made up name that they gave themselves when they moved there
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On Covid, the past is being erased and the present ignored. ‘Don’t mention the virus’ has become a mantra and the government is silencing discussion about the disease
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Of course he posted a screenshot and not a clip, so u can't see her struggling to form a single coherent argument!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“Heartbreaking” to see a creator earning great $$ by creating entertaining content for an army of fans on a social media app
50 years of relentless innovation to end up here — heartbreaking 💔
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Smushed hamburger buns looking couch
Need this 1970’s cloud sofa designed by Howard Keith.
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Many are saying this
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I’ve had to increasingly turn down TV hits that want me in studio because networks refuse to take even basic safety precautions to make things accessible. It’s really disappointing, especially when they book another reporter to talk about my reporting
Was recently asked to do a TV thing, 4 hours, in studio.
Asked about ventilation in studio, they said they didn’t know.
Asked if studio crew could wear masks, they said no, not required to.
Asked if I could wear a mask, they said no.
So anyway I didn’t do the TV thing.
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For the past 2 years, former talent manager Ariadna Jacob has been attempting to silence my reporting by filing a bogus $11.6M lawsuit. Today, she dropped the lawsuit with prejudice. I’m thrilled this meritless lawsuit has come to an end and will be celebrating this victory!!
Our response to Ariadna Jacob dismissing her defamation lawsuit against Taylor Lorenz and The New York Times Company.
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The amount of shit ppl make up about my life is insane and no amount of facts will ever convince them they’re wrong. They’ve created an entire character in their mind who lived a life the polar opposite of mine in their heads, based on lies they saw abt me on Fox News and twitter
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The same people decrying "lockdowns" are the ones saying disabled and vulnerable people should be forced to stay locked inside their houses forever unable to go to work, school, or participate in public life safely. Where's the public outrage over that??
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but … I’m beyond tired of hearing about all the “mental health impacts of isolation from lockdowns.”
People. The most isolating time of the whole pandemic for vulnerable people is RIGHT NOW.
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It turns out that someone touted by Megyn Kelly, Bari Weiss, Eric Weinstein and Joe Rogan has some major credibility issues. Excellent reporting by
@willsommer
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Swatting is a federal crime for good reason. This is so irresponsible
A threat by a thug against a woman journalist broadcast to his 140 million devotees. When he tweeted it, there were 53K views within 11 min. Now, there are one million views. Don't think it's a threat? Google "swatting."
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No, we are simply asking people not to actively murder us.
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