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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2026-07-16 07:12:07 CEST

“Social media is ‘one of the least influential factors’ in teen depression and anxiety; girls who are already depressed go on to use social media more, not the other way around.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/16/psychologist-candice-odgers-kids-tech-mental-health-social-media-bans

2026-07-14 17:08:32 CEST

Meta used AI to target ⁠people with disabilities or who took ⁠medical leave for mass layoffs. https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-07-14/meta-used-ai-to-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-for-layoffs-former-employees-lawsuit-claims

2026-04-17 02:00:58 CEST

"Age verification is is inherently a right-wing effort. While these laws are being supported globally by those on the political right and left, they are very much a right wing effort to suppress disliked speech."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/the-right-wing-origins-age-verification-laws-dont-disappear-just-because-theyre-going-bipartisan/

2026-04-01 09:50:42 CEST

Very eager to hear people’s thoughts on this video. I think he explains the issues with the left’s current rhetoric surrounding AI very well https://youtu.be/Z75hlhgchQ4?si=7IeYT_-864BrrpaU

2026-03-31 01:16:43 CEST

I'm working on a YouTube mini series explaining the Fediverse!!
Who are the most knowledgeable people in this realm who I should definitely talk to?
What do you think is important to include in my series? I want to hear thoughts!!

2026-03-23 20:35:33 CET

Having one of those days where I'm so tired and burned out I can't get anything done. Anyone have any suggestions?? I can't do coffee or any stimulants sadly

2026-03-18 20:05:19 CET

The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harry’s Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, secret billionaire typing patterns, and more!! Subscribe to my newsletter to support my work 👇🏻 https://www.usermag.co/p/burned-out-doesnt-begin-to-describe

2026-03-18 20:03:53 CET

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden

2026-03-02 22:20:34 CET

Yapper ads, the Most Evil Gay Guy, pop culture OpenClaw, Gucci runway texts, Jim Carry conspiracies, #sendBaron, Zuck's $170M mansion, Opensource Palantir, how the AIs kill, and MORE in today's newsletter. https://www.usermag.co/p/situation-monitoring-products-are

2026-03-02 18:03:24 CET

I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled

2026-02-20 20:12:51 CET

They're having trouble getting jurors in one of the trials against Elon Musk because "so many people hate him so much" https://www.law360.com/articles/2443845/-hate-for-musk-quickly-narrows-jury-pool-in-twitter-deal-trial

2026-02-06 20:50:33 CET

I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.
How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective

2026-02-06 20:47:31 CET

New video out on how the UK is exporting mass surveillance laws around the world and why the UK’s censorship and surveillance efforts are so dangerous! https://youtu.be/S7C9ezwH9Ok

2026-01-28 05:54:05 CET

With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!! I love this app and I really think the decentralized model is the best for social media.
Still, people don’t want to join! What do you think Mastodon’s biggest barriers are to courting new users? What could be done to improve the product and grow the user base in a positive way?

2026-01-09 01:40:37 CET

“It should be crystal clear to everyone that the real threat to community safety is the ICE agents harassing, targeting, detaining — and in some tragic cases — killing our neighbors. This violence is unacceptable, it is criminal, and it is against the constitution of the United States.” https://www.portland.gov/council/districts/1/candace-avalos/news/2026/1/8/east-portland-councilors-avalos-dunphy-smith

2025-12-13 15:25:51 CET

I wrote about the unprecedented mass censorship and surveillance laws that Congress is trying to ram through in the name of “protecting kids” and how none of this is about protecting kids. In fact, these laws cause great harm to all of us, for Zeteo https://zeteo.com/p/social-media-children-ban-australia-us

2025-08-22 17:31:40 CEST

“What all of these stunts provide, then, is the chance for a member of the crowd to best an internet celebrity, to prove that he or she is just as good as the object of his or her obsession” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/style/revenge-of-the-followers.html

2025-07-30 01:28:44 CEST

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." Another Nazi blog is being promoted in Substack's "Rising in History" list https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-nazi-white-supremacist-blog

2025-07-22 18:56:37 CEST

Dubai Porta Potty parties, dupe mania, 3-D printed Labubus, Norman culture, Burning Man chaos, AI body dysmorphia, Ring spy drones, MAGA’s fave military influencer, WaPo's TikTok guy goes solo, and MORE in today's newsletter https://www.usermag.co/p/i-interviewed-the-jubilee-ceo-on

2025-05-07 21:03:13 CEST

"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 20:43:45 CEST

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

2025-04-30 02:46:33 CEST

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/hospitals-in-ruins

2025-04-28 22:56:52 CEST

I wrote for Rolling Stone about WHCD weekend and how the dinner has become a relic of legacy media. “It was all NPCs" said one Hilton attendee https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/trump-era-white-house-correspondents-dinner-1235326699/

2025-04-16 00:47:36 CEST

New law 'protecting child influencers' is bad and dangerous. I investigated what the law actually says and spoke to top free speech and legal experts about how it could be used. What I found is not what the media is reporting https://www.usermag.co/p/utah-protect-child-influencers-law-bad-and-dangerous-free-speech-censorship-concerns-legal-experts

2025-04-07 19:52:48 CEST

The hottest show on TikTok right now, new kids content house, atomic slang, soft eugenics, poverty livestreams, Altman and Ive screenless dreams, aspirational shitposting, and a Gen Z Influencer for Kamala Harris is running for congress https://www.usermag.co/p/the-hottest-show-on-tiktok-right-now-the-group-chat-show

2025-04-02 01:44:58 CEST

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 18:58:39 CEST

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

2025-03-27 17:21:33 CET

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

2025-03-15 02:35:26 CET

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

2025-03-15 02:01:21 CET

“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 01:43:45 CET

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 15:31:43 CET

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

2025-03-11 01:52:41 CET

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 01:52:20 CET

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 21:06:59 CET

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

2025-03-06 09:05:53 CET

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 19:56:08 CET

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 05:42:58 CET

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

2025-02-22 06:56:09 CET

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 14:13:06 CET

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 19:44:12 CET

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

2025-02-07 19:10:18 CET

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 01:31:08 CET

“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 05:57:15 CET

Seeking help! No matter how many keywords/names u search related to this story the article doesn't appear on Google
This was a front page A1 story I wrote for WaPo on how smear campaigns and abuse women journalists endure are a press freedom issue. Can someone explain why the article does not appear on Google? https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/

2024-12-12 19:55:50 CET

"People don’t cheer for chaos when they feel like justice is possible. But right now, what options do they have? The Supreme Court is corrupt, voting feels useless, and the people in power are funded by the very corporations they’re supposed to regulate. Of course, Mangione gets turned into a meme hero—it’s not him they love; it’s the idea of someone finally fighting back" https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/those-who-make-peaceful-revolution

2024-12-10 22:12:40 CET

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

2024-12-09 18:28:32 CET

Police have taken a suspect into custody for the UnitedHealth CEO's shooting in Pennsylvania. The man was found with a gun, silencer, four fake IDs and other items "consistent" with what police were looking for related to the shooting https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/09/unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder-person-of-interest-detained/

2024-12-03 07:22:35 CET

"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 06:31:51 CET

“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 18:35:54 CET

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 18:00:26 CET

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

2024-10-28 18:00:44 CET

Substack could embrace the federated model of social media, which platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and even Threads leverage. In so many ways, the Fediverse embodies the ideals that Substack was founded on: giving users a platform-agnostic connection to their audience, allowing for audience portability, eliminating top-down moderation, and putting users back in control of their online experience. https://www.usermag.co/p/how-substacks-follow-feature-betrays

2024-10-27 17:22:22 CET

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@npub1eh3…2h32 @npub1jug…zh9n hi!! Omg I have never seen your replies I am sorry, I would have definitely responded!! I would love to chat, and not trying to hate on ghost btw. As I understand Quilette is on Ghost and you guys don’t do content moderation. But I wasn’t trying to hate on anyone and I just think that a lot of these convos about publishing tools are derailed by what ppl read in headlines. I’m on [email protected] if u ever have a few min to chat I’d love to connect 🙏

2024-10-27 00:41:45 CEST

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@npub1jug…zh9n they do! They have less moderation than Substack but it was never a viral headline. I’m not defending it or saying “well this platform is also bad so it’s ok for Substack to do xyz” just saying it’s a broader systemic issue with these email newsletter platforms and publishing tools that don’t want to get into the content moderation business

2024-10-27 00:31:00 CEST

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@npub1jug…zh9n Ghost also accepts nazis, I realize they’re not part of the fediverse but I struggle to find a single publishing tool that doesn’t allow allow reprehensible people to publish.

2024-10-27 00:22:40 CEST

Question for something I’m writing: would it be possible for Substack to make substack Notes (its twitter like feature within the Substack app) part of the fediverse?
I’m wondering if this is something that’s technically possible or not and I don’t know enough about how the fediverse operates to know if it would be feasible. #fediverse

2024-09-04 05:37:44 CEST

“Repeated studies show in the bluntest terms that the initial acute infection is only the tip of the iceberg. Even a mild bout of COVID can leave a legacy of blood clots, heart failure, diabetes, decreased brain function, long COVID and immune damage that increasingly makes people more vulnerable to a plethora of infectious diseases and possibly cancers.”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/03/COVID-Surge-High-Price-Viral-Denial/

2024-08-30 02:30:31 CEST

“The journalism business may be tanking, but the practice itself has never been more robust. At what other time in history could someone have started writing and within a matter of weeks reached tens or even hundreds of thousands of readers—and be making a living solely from subscriptions?” https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/mathew_ingram_goodbye.php

2024-08-25 02:52:12 CEST

Thrilled to hear Threads is testing ephemeral posts. Having a static feed of everything you’ve ever posted that’s default permanent and public feels very dated.
Excited to see Threads testing more lightweight forms of expression/posting. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/24/threads-confirms-it-is-experimenting-with-ephemeral-posts/

2024-08-10 18:45:55 CEST

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“Jonathan Haidt’s work is reactionary, embedded in romanticization of the good old days and dismay at what modernity has wrought.” https://archive.ph/2024.07.26-203438/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-society/social-cultural-studies/the-anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt-book-review-andrew-solomon/

2024-08-10 18:43:59 CEST

“Authoritarianism reassures people who cannot figure out what to do and are relieved when someone else tells them… Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation is a compendium of… such wishful lucidity.” https://archive.ph/2024.07.26-203438/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-society/social-cultural-studies/the-anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt-book-review-andrew-solomon/

2024-07-30 18:43:32 CEST

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 07:13:13 CEST

“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

2024-07-09 01:59:57 CEST

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 20:43:45 CEST

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

2024-06-18 00:05:59 CEST

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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 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/

2024-06-18 00:05:53 CEST

SCOOP: The White House Office of Digital Strategy 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.”

2024-06-09 18:46:06 CEST

“On November 11, the foreign ministry launched a campaign under the hashtag # BelieveIsraeliWomen.
They didn’t mean ‘believe Israeli women’. They meant ‘believe Israel’.”
https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-times-magazine/article/israel-hamas-rape-investigation-evidence-october-7-6kzphszsj

2024-05-30 21:58:39 CEST

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 19:55:39 CEST

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/

2024-05-25 20:41:47 CEST

Thank you!!! Subscribe to my YouTube channel today! :D I'm working on a big series about kids and technology that will drop next month https://www.youtube.com/taylorlorenz

2024-05-12 08:50:33 CEST

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

2024-05-06 05:23:43 CEST

MrBeast is cutting ties with Night media and taking personal control of his business https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/youtube-star-mr-beast--management-company-night-media

2024-05-05 20:31:37 CEST

“The media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,” Piker said. “They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don’t treat these students as an organized entity at all.” https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

2024-05-05 20:30:40 CEST

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

2024-05-01 02:55:03 CEST

“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

2024-04-24 20:57:40 CEST

David Leonhardt is once again using his perch at the NYT to spread outright misinformation, now about TikTok. Here's a great debunking of the nonsense study Leonhardt is promoting, that the NYT wrote up despite the fact that it's easily disproven https://www.cato.org/blog/lies-damned-lies-statistics-misleading-study-compares-tiktok-instagram

2024-04-23 00:48:44 CEST

The 25 most-cited news organizations in the U.S. lost 75% of their total user engagement on Facebook and 58% of interactions on Instagram between 2022 and 2024.
"Where will people go for this information? Or will they just go without?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/21/social-media-trump-biden-politics-instagram-facebook/

2024-04-17 05:38:14 CEST

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The internet is 24/7 Gamergate and the media has learned nothing I fear!

2024-04-13 00:23:15 CEST

They need to start selling chocolate chip cookie dough without the chocolate chips. The chips only detract from the dough/cookie! In this essay I will

2024-04-09 21:05:48 CEST

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@npub10d2…fy4f sure, but those same people now are the mainstream (which is scary!)

2024-04-09 21:04:20 CEST

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"Fundamentally, anti-vaxxers believe that some people should survive, and others should not. Some people should have rights and privileges, others should not. Some people are superior, others inferior.
This deeply fascist belief is the beating heart of COVID normalization." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to

2024-04-09 21:02:51 CEST

Anti vaxxers believe illness is good for you, disease mitigations can harm you, and public health is a personal choice
Now, liberals and leftists do too
Excellent reporting by Julia Doubleday on how far right anti vaxx beliefs have been mainstreamed https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to

2024-03-26 08:10:59 CET

“On the internet, you can post anything you want. The question is, when this is not hurtful or illegal, it’s just someone making a claim, who gets to say whether any particular claim is valid or not?” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/24/birding-online-community-10000-species

2024-03-25 23:31:14 CET

Emails obtained via FOIA by The Intercept show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

2024-03-20 02:35:13 CET

"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

2024-03-20 00:31:38 CET

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 19:48:48 CET

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 04:23:33 CET

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 21:15:10 CET

“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 17:22:00 CET

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 16:51:45 CET

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

2024-03-05 00:07:26 CET

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

2024-02-24 17:39:24 CET

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/

2024-02-22 18:51:09 CET

Where everyone’s an influencer and everything’s for sale https://www.theverge.com/24078625/flip-influencers-tiktok-shopping-product-reviews-monetization

2024-02-15 20:10:32 CET

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

2024-02-08 00:18:19 CET

"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 17:30:20 CET

People who worked at Boeing wouldn't fly Boeing planes https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-30/boeing-max-9-flying-again-after-door-panel-blowout
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2024-02-07 11:08:11 CET

"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/

2024-02-06 02:12:48 CET

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/