The Latest Breaking News from Taylor Lorenz

Online influencers, through their postings on Instagram, Threads, TikTok and elsewhere, have created an exuberant universe of news and commentary that often outruns mainstream media in reach and even impact. They work the same waterfront as journalism and public relations, but their relationship with those mainstay practices built around fact…

The columnist was fired after comments she made about the murder of the conservative commentator on the X (formerly Twitter) alternative, Bluesky.

Lorenz joked that the accused killer is also ‘morally good, which is hard to find’

Combine moral zealotry with increasingly blurred lines between political speech and violence long enough, and the outcome is predictable.

Merriam-Webster has just chosen “polarisation” as its 2024 word of the year. The venerable US dictionary defines this as “division into two sharply distinct opposites in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society. . . become concentrated at opposing extremes.” They chose it with the state…

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New York Police Department releases CCTV stills showing a man wearing a hooded jacket with his face clearly visible.

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Taylor Lorenz announced she left the outlet to launch User Magazine on Substack.