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Taylor Lorenz
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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
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Taylor Lorenz 5 months ago
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
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Taylor Lorenz 7 months ago
"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
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Taylor Lorenz 9 months ago
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
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Taylor Lorenz 9 months ago
I need to log off for a while and sleep and stop getting upset over the internet.
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).
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
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
On this week's Power User podcast @npub1sfjt...u45j joins me to go deep on Balaji, "Tech Zionism", and billionaire VCs plans to transform S.F. into a sovereign state