{"id":1454329,"date":"2022-04-26T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454329"},"modified":"2022-04-26T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:44:41","slug":"insufferable-wapo-journo-taylor-lorenz-trolled-with-times-square-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/insufferable-wapo-journo-taylor-lorenz-trolled-with-times-square-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Insufferable WaPo Journo Taylor Lorenz Trolled With Times Square Billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finsufferable-wapo-journo-taylor-lorenz-trolled-with-times-square-billboard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>After Taylor Lorenz and the Washington Post doxxed anonymous Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/libs-of-tik-tok-has-hope-for-the-future-of-education-in-america\">Libs of Tik Tok<\/a> then denied it, YouTuber Tim Pool of Timcast bought a billboard in Times Square, New York, to call them out.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;The <em>Washington Post<\/em> and Taylor Lorenz Doxxed @libsoftiktok. They included a link to private work details and an address listed as Libs&#8217; private home. They lied about it so I got an ad in Times Square calling them out. Thanks to @JeremyDBoreing for the assist,&#8221; Pool wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Hey WAPO!&#8221; The billboard reads. &#8220;Democracy dies in darkness. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re shining a light on you. Taylor Lorenz doxxed @libsoftiktok&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Washington Post and Taylor Lorenz Doxxed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@libsoftiktok<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>They included a link to private work details and an address listed as Libs&#8217; private home<\/p>\n<p>They lied about it so I got an ad in Times Square calling them out<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyDBoreing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JeremyDBoreing<\/a> for the assist <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mIupTc2rZ6\">pic.twitter.com\/mIupTc2rZ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timcast\/status\/1518982490781847552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>It was last week that Taylor Lorenz, writing for the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, did an expose on the anonymous Twitter account Libs of Tik Tok, which posts clips found on Tik Tok and social media of leftists speaking about their proclivities. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Often these clips show people proudly revealing and boosting their gender identity or their perspectives on race and anti-racist, entirely from a leftist perspective.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Lorenz claimed that the account targeted people in the LGBTQ community, but the account shows people speaking about themselves in their own words with pride. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Conservatives humanize babies by putting a gender on them so they can stop people from having abortions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J9W0922m01\">pic.twitter.com\/J9W0922m01<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1518276445335961605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/the-washington-post-plans-to-dox-libs-of-tik-tok-in-new-hit-piece-by-taylor-lorenz\">Lorenz<\/a> had not doxxed the account holder, but when the article ran, there were links to the account holder&#8217;s address and personal information. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/the-washington-post-lies-claims-they-did-not-publish-details-about-libs-of-tik-toks-personal-life\">claim was a lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Lorenz claimed that she doxxed Libs of Tik Tok over concerns that the account holder could be a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/taylor-lorenz-doxxed-libs-of-tik-tok-foreign-actor\">foreign actor.<\/a>&#8221; It was revealed that the Antifa-affiliated accounts Lorenz based her reporting on were actually <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/german-government-funds-research-project-that-doxxed-libs-of-tik-tok\">funded by the German government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s rare to see an account gain so much prominence so quickly and be shaping these narratives in such an effective way, especially against trans people,&#8221; Lorenz said. &#8220;So I was, I mean, my story was kind of long, but I really wanted to make the case, like, why this account mattered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I mean, for all we knew, this could have been a foreign actor, right? Or someone\u2014 \u00a0we just didn&#8217;t know,&#8221; Lorenz declared. &#8220;And so I thought, hey, look, this account has massive power, massive influence. This woman is basically on an entire right-wing media tour. She gave interviews to the <em>New York Post, <\/em>Tucker [Carlson], all of that, and registered as a media company, registered a trademark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>After the doxxing, which inadvertently <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/wapos-doxxing-of-libs-of-tik-tok-leads-to-targeted-harassment-of-woman-with-the-same-name\">dragged in another woman<\/a> of the same name, Lorenz <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/after-doxxing-libs-of-tik-tok-taylor-lorenz-complains-that-her-family-was-doxxed\">complained<\/a> that her family was doxxed. Libs of Tik Tok&#8217;s popularity <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/libs-of-tik-toks-popularity-skyrockets-after-wapos-failed-dox-and-smear-campaign\">skyrocketed<\/a> amid the fallout.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Taylor Lorenz and the Washington Post doxxed anonymous Twitter account Libs of Tik Tok then denied it, YouTuber Tim Pool of Timcast bought a billboard in Times Square,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1895986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}