Taylor Lorenz

Episode 95: Taylor Lorenz

Taylor Lorenz is an author and Washington Post columnist covering technology and online culture

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Taylor Lorenz is an author and Washington Post columnist covering technology and online culture. Before joining The Post, she was a technology reporter for the New York Times' business section. She was also previously a technology reporter at the Atlantic and the Daily Beast. Her first book Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet, will be released this October and is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, simonandschuster.com, etc.

Taylor shares her thoughts on META's new Threads app; the fate of Twitter; the Zuckerberg vs Musk battle (in and out of the cage-match ring!); her own sparring with Musk; Musk's new AI company; the real threat(s) from TikTok; and discusses her book, which is described as "the inside, untold story of what we have done to the internet, and what it has done to us"

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