On Doxxing and Media Manipulation

Ed Zitron
4 min readApr 20, 2022

If you want to see a real life version of the media attempting to intimidate and censor someone, Taylor Lorenz is a great example — and to be clear, I mean the character assassination and continual pressure put on her from right wing media.

The situation in question refers to Taylor’s recent Washington Post piece that unmasks the gruesome “Libs of Tiktok,” an account that has become a relaible cog in the right wing outrage machine. To quote the piece:

On March 8, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex…

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Ed Zitron

CEO @EZPR . British. 2x author, writer @thisisinsider , @TheAtlantic — Top 50 @bitech tech PR 4x — http://ez.substack.com — The BBQ Joker