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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
A New Kind of AI Deepfake is Taking Over TikTok [PATREON PREVIEW]
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We Need to Talk About 'Political Violence’
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The Death of Casual Posting w/ Kyle Chayka
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ICE can now hack your phone without you knowing
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The Shocking Truth About Dark Money and Influencers
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The Real Reason Your Insurance Just Went Up
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The MrBeast of OnlyFans on Skibidi Toilet Porn and Elon Musk
If you’ve spent enough time online, you have undeniably encountered the work of John Kilo. John is a 28 year old OnlyFans creator in Portland, and he has…
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Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You
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The True Story Behind Four Loko
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YouTube's AI Age Verification is a Disaster
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What killed The Song Of The Summer w/ Anthony Fantano
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Everyone’s Lying About Lil Tay OnlyFans w/ Kat Tenbarge
Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co A few days ago, 18 year old social…
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Is ChatGPT Changing The Way We Talk? w/ Adam Aleksic
Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Since its launch in 2022, ChatGPT…
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The UK's Censorship Catastrophe is Just The Beginning
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The Public Health Internet Is Crumbling
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How Companies Learned Everything About Us
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ICE Is Building a Nationwide Tracking System (and Your Data is In It)
Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co The U.S. government is quietly…
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Why we can’t stop doxxing people for fun
Last week, a couple featured on the Jumbotron during a Coldplay concert in Boston went viral for being caught cheating. Within minutes of the video spreading…
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AI Deepfake Panic is Killing Free Speech
There's a bill right now in congress called the NO FAKES act that claims it will protect you from deepfakes. "In this new era of AI, we need real laws to…
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Diddy And The Death of #MeToo: How Diddy’s Trial Was Weaponized Online
Earlier this month, Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering after a high-profile federal trial. The acquittals show how high…
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Is a YouTuber Using Copyright Law to Silence Speech?
[FREE SPEECH FRIDAY] For decades, content creators have fought against oppressive copyright law. Copyright claims have been wielded by powerful corporations to…
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MAGA's Epstein Crashout And What's Next w/ Will Sommer
After years of hype and promises to destroy the deep state, the Department of Justice and FBI publicly declared there is no “client list” linking Jeffrey…
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Silicon Valley Wants Endless War
[VIDEO ESSAY] --- Anti-Muslim hate is becoming extremely profitable in Silicon Valley as the tech industry pivots towards defense tech and embedding itself…
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Are kindness influencers bad?
Because it's a holiday week I'm re-running one of my favorite episodes from last year. I spoke to content creator Brad Podray about the problem with “Kindness…
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Deported Over a JD Vance Meme
Can a meme really get you deported? This week’s Free Speech Friday, is on Mads Mikkelsen, a Norwegian tourist allegedly kicked out of the country over a viral…
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Private Equity Is Destroying America
Private equity has quietly been gutting major sectors of the American economy, from healthcare, to housing, retail, our news media, and more. The industry is a…
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ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion: The Rise of People Worshiping A.I.
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How The Government Tracks Your Life
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The Death of Rainbow Capitalism w/ Matt Bernstein
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The Truth About Burning Waymos
Over the past week tech people, right wing figures and the media have been freaking out about Waymos being set on fire in downtown Los Angeles. The Waymos were…
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Elon vs Trump Explained w/ Brace Belden
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Is this the end of the open web?
Welcome back to Free Speech Friday! All across the internet, parents and lawmakers are calling for tech companies to verify users' ages online. They frame…
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Elon Musk's God complex
As Elon Musk's influence has grown, so too has a darker, more troubling side of his persona: his rampant egomania.Faiz Siddiqui is a former colleague of mine…
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The Government Is Lying About Online Safety
Welcome back to my new series Free Speech Friday! :) Right now, lawmakers in congress are trying to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a dangerous…
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The case against logging off
Every week, there’s a new warning: TikTok is poisoning the youth, Facebook is radicalizing your uncle, and the only way to save ourselves is to log off.But…
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The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer
WATCH ALL FREE SPEECH FRIDAY EPISODES ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNELThe stated goal of the Take it Down Act is to combat non consensual intimate images (NCII)…
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Why Students Can't Stop Using ChatGPT
Students are using ChatGPT for everything. Parents are freaking out and the media is calling it the end of education as we know it. But are students really…
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They're trying to ban posting about abortion online
Imagine messaging a friend on Snapchat about how to get abortion pills, or tweeting about reproductive rights and getting fined hundreds of thousands of…
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How the Media Tricks You Into Loving the Police
If you’ve ever wondered why news media obsesses over shoplifting but ignores wage theft, or why media outlets report a "shortage" of prison guards without…
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Undercover AI ‘College Protester’ Bots for Cops
American police departments are using secretive AI technology to create lifelike AI personas designed to interact with real people online —like protesters and…
- Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
Tween Podcasters Are Taking Over the Internet
From middle schoolers riffing on school lunch to kids interviewing political figures, podcasting is no longer just for adults. With high-end mics, massive…
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Fake Newspapers Are Flooding America
From Ohio to North Dakota, thousands of people have suddenly gotten brand new newspapers delivered to their doorsteps out of the blue. These newspapers are…
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The White House's social media is deranged
Since Trump took office, the official White House social media accounts have been posting a bit… differently. Drew Harwell, my former colleague at The…
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The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein
Ever since Ashton Hall's morning routine went viral last week, I've been dying to chat about it with my friend Matt Bernstein of the podcast A Bit Fruity to…
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Musk’s DOGE Antics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla
Over the past few weeks, Tesla has been crumbling. The company's stock, which was once considered invincible, has now plunged to around $250 a share, down from…
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Trump Official Brendan Carr's War on Free Speech
Chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr has quietly positioned himself as one of the most dangerous figures in the Trump administration’s…
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The Right-Wing Plot to ‘Murder’ a Free Press
In 1964, the Supreme Court passed a landmark case called The New York Times v Sullivan, that established the right to a free press by protecting the media…
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How Pop Culture News is Radicalizing You
Have you been bombarded with non stop content about Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni? The Misogyny Slop Ecosystem is a sprawling network of online creators and…
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How the 00s changed the tech world forever
The 2000s were a formative decade for tech. From the dot com bubble to the rise of social media, to the chaotic days of early blogging, the iMac, and emergence…
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Elon Musk and the Billionaire Baby Boom
Last week, it was revealed that Elon Musk had welcomed his 13th child into the world several months ago with a conservative influencer. But he’s not the only…
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How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’
No platform has had more of impact on what we listen to over the past decade than Spotify. This week, Taylor is joined by journalist Liz Pelly, to discuss her…
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Meet the zoomers aiding Musk’s government takeover
Over the past week, Elon Musk has been engaged in a near wholesale takeover of key areas of the U.S. federal government. Working under the newly minted…
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Why a MAGA influencer turned on Trump
Clarkson Lawson was a prominent MAGA influencer on TikTok who amassed over 31 million likes on his videos. He built a platform as an outspoken Gen Z…
- Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
The Truth About Child Influencing
Family vlogs are a huge category of online content. At their best, they show real parenting and the entertaining and relatable moments of family life. However…
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Doxxed, harassed and silenced: the fallout of Gamergate 2.0
Remember Gamergate? Well… it's happening again. After writing an exposé about how a video game consultancy was attacked, journalist Alyssa Mercante found…
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Patreon’s CEO on the existential threat to creators no one is talking about
Social media as we know it is in chaos. The landscape is becoming more centralized and creators are facing more challenges than ever. On top of all that, the…
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What defined the internet in 2024?
2024 was wild! "Brain rot" was the Oxford word of the year. TikTok's days away from being banned. The CostCo Guys and the Hawk Tuah girl were everywhere…
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Is TikTok really dead?
Last week, TikTok lost its challenge to stop a ban or forced sale in the United States. WIRED senior business editor Louise Matsakis joins Taylor to discuss…
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The case against cell phone bans in school
A moral panic about kids' social media and smartphone use in schools has been sweeping the country. But are cell phones really the problem? And is removing…
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Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?
Are women abstaining from sex to protest Donald Trump’s re-election? That’s the impression you’d get if you spent time reading the media over the past few…