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Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
Taylor Lorenz explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, she explores everything from online fame to emerging platforms, viral phenomena, the creator economy, and much more. Tune in every Wednesday for regular episodes and every Friday for "Free Speech Friday," her series on tech policy and the fight for civil liberties online.
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- Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
They Want to Ban Abortion Info Online
How Section 230 Became a Reproductive Rights IssueSupport my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack…
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How The Govt Uses Big Tech to Silence Critics
The Trump admin publicly bragged about demanding that Apple and Facebook remove ICE watch apps and Facebook groups documenting ICE activity, and Big Tech is…
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Kids Are Being Taught By ChatGPT: Inside A $65K AI School
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Why The Internet Is Broken
FOSTA/SESTA shows what happens when you "reform" and chip away at Section 230.Welcome back to my Section 230 mini-series, where I break down the most important…
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The Body Camera Propaganda Playbook
Democrats just handed ICE exactly what ICE asked for.[FREE SPEECH FRIDAY]If you value my reporting, please, please support my work 👇👇👇Join the Patreon…
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Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds: The Logging Off Industrial Complex
Are dumb phones actually the solution to our anxieties, or are they a $400 scam built on a moral panic?~~~~~~~~~~My work is 100% self-funded and this series is…
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The Man Who Created the Internet's Most Important Law: Sen. Wyden Reveals What Big Tech Won't Tell You
Sen. Ron Wyden speaks about Section 230, internet freedom, free speech, and how Trump is pushing big tech's policies. Big Tech interest groups and reactionary…
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Internet Censorship Crusade
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is pushing a bill that would END free speech on the internet, and he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.[FREE SPEECH…
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White Women Are MAGA Internet's Newest Enemy
White women have long been a core voting bloc for conservatives, so why are right wing media figures suddenly obsessed with attacking them?Support my…
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They Are Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
🚨 URGENT: Section 230 is under attack and it affects EVERY person who uses the internet. This is part 1 of my deep-dive series exposing the truth about the…
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The UK Is A Dystopia, And We're Next
The UK is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive surveillance states in the democratic world, and many don't even realize it's happening.Support my…
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Content Creation Has Become a Pyramid Scheme
The MLM industry has rebranded for the TikTok era. Now, instead of hawking LuLaRoe leggings, women are paying $500 for PDFs on how to become micro influencers…
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[PATREON PREVIEW] The Powerful Subreddit Upending Twitch: The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail
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Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?
The Internet as we know it is on trial. A major suit claiming social media addiction could give the government unprecedented power.Support my independent…
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Why Everyone Is Becoming Chinese Online w/ Caroline Kwan
China is winning the culture war: From "galvanized square steel" to drinking hot water, why is the entire internet suddenly looking more Chinese?Support my…
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Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham [PATREON PREVIEW]
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How The Government Tracks Your Life
[FREE SPEECH FRIDAY]Every single moment that you're online, you're feeding the data harvesting industry. Corporations then sell that data to the government…
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Why Everyone Is Suddenly Obsessed With 2016
Matt Bernstein, Kat Tenbarge and I dig into what the 2016 nostalgia is really about. Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with 2016? Hyper-saturated Instagram…
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Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
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ICE's New Surveillance System Can Follow You Everywhere
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Ashley St Clair's Political Awakening: Trans Rights, AI, and Elon Musk
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Congress Is Pushing Another Internet Censorship Law: The SCREEN Act
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ICE Is Treating Immigration Raids Like Content
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4Chan's Battle to Stop the UK From Censoring the Global Internet
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The Insane Overnight Rise of Clavicular: the black-pilled Gen Z looksmaxxer taking over the internet
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[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now
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Is This The End of The Open Web?
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Elon Musk's God Complex
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Is There A Vibe Shift in Silicon Valley? [PATREON EXCLUSIVE]
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Social Media Addiction Isn't Real— Here is What's Really Happening
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How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z w/ Ryan Broderick
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The Global Internet Is Dying: America Is Repeating China's Biggest Mistake
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Everyone Is Wrong About The Olivia Nuzzi RFK Scandal w/ Kat Tenbarge
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Congress Is About to Break the Internet
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The Radicalization Pipeline Nobody Sees Coming
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None Of This is About Online Safety
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The MAGA Twitter Apocalypse w/ Charlie Warzel
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[PATREON PREVIEW] How Zohran Won The Internet w/ the Creators 4 Zohran Founders
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The Most Depraved Commentary I've Ever Heard
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The Epstein Saga Is Sending the Internet Into Chaos w/ Brace Belden
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The Government Is Spying on College Football Games
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How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War
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He Was Tortured in an Israeli Prison for Speaking Out
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Why Every Hit Pop Song Sounds the Same Now
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The New Legal Fight to Destroy Super PACs Forever
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Has Taylor Swift Finally Peaked? Why Billionaires Can't Make Good Art
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A Woman Streamer Was Assaulted, Is Twitch To Blame?
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Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon
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Fighting For LGBTQ Rights is Terrorism Now: NSPM-7 Explained w/ Ken Klippenstein
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Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For
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[PATREON PREVIEW] How Raunchy AI Country Songs Took Over The Internet
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You Are Probably Being Tracked By ICE Right Now
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A Crypto Convict's Spectacular Comeback Tour: How Ross Ulbricht Became A Powerful MAGA Influencer
SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!!Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Nearly a decade ago, Ross Ulbricht…
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The Shocking Plan to Kill Online Privacy: A VPN Ban Will Break the Web
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The AI Slop-pocalypse: How The Slop Economy Took Over
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How To Become Invisible Online (Delete Your Digital Footprint and Protect Your Privacy Forever)
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The Truth About Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising
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The Secret Role Of Influencers In Global Propaganda
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Trump's Censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Is Just The Beginning
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The Truth Behind The Rise of 'Robot Racism'
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