Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz
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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

This @drewharwell story about a man who set up a fake ICE tip line, and the sheer range of people who called in, is gutting https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/20/fake-ice-tip-line-viral/

$25 covers the purchase and shipment of a pair of femme tucking garments to 1 trans youth.

$50 covers the purchase and shipment of brand-new chest binders to 3 trans youths.

$100 covers the processing and postage to mail garments to 35 trans youths.

When you donate to Point of Pride, your $ goes directly towards funding life saving gender care for trans people in need. Trans rights are under attack, and we need to do everything we can to respond
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/point-of-pride/taylor-lorenz-s-pride-2025-fundraiser-for-point-of-pride

In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need.

Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! https://secure.givelively.org/donate/point-of-pride/taylor-lorenz-s-pride-2025-fundraiser-for-point-of-pride

I love Fox News' complete inability to ever recognize my sarcasm https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/7-craziest-stories-from-our-shortest-month
7 craziest stories from our shortest month

February is supposed to be the shortest month. Alas, for my friends in the press, there are no short months under President Donald Trump.

Fox News
‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

The New York Times
Dying at this Apple voice note transcription of a message from my friend
I signed up for a google alert on my name a couple weeks ago to keep tabs on my User Mag launch and every day the alert brings me new gifts

NPR is once again publishing irresponsible misleading garbage.

An entire strain of the flu was not eliminated "thanks to covid" it was eliminated because everyone collectively masked and took measures that halted the spread of airborne disease.

Think how many viruses and people could be saved if people just fucking masked, we upgraded ventilation, and took airborne disease seriously.

But NPR will never put that in a headline.

My Substack piece on how we need to stop letting far right influencers cosplay as independent media is featured on Mediagazer!!

Read it here: https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/we-need-to-know-who-is-funding-the

Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ‘independent’ media

+ Inside a Russian influence operation, a 'Who TF Did I Marry' TV show, TikTok's alien invasion, and why Gen Zs love choking each other out

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This fake screenshot published by a man known for spreading far right conspiracy theories currently has 2.2M views and is being shared all over Twitter.

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