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 education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, prompting the host to ask, “When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?”
The right-wing blowback — from the New York Post and others that I won’t be linking to — has focused on Taylor “doxxing” the Libs of TikTok account owner, by which I mean she used publicly available sources to investigate the account owner’s identity (Chaya Raichik). Doxxing usually refers to revealing the identity of someone for no good reason other than to direct people to them with the unspoken intent of creating harassment, a thing that Taylor hasn’t done, but many people have done to Taylor.
In the case of Libs Of TikTok, we are discussing an account with 874,000 Twitter followers, 105,000 Instagram followers and 50,200 followers on…
