{"id":1462118,"date":"2022-05-03T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462118"},"modified":"2022-05-03T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:14:51","slug":"hack-journo-taylor-lorenz-says-a-drudge-report-editor-harassed-her-then-walks-back-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hack-journo-taylor-lorenz-says-a-drudge-report-editor-harassed-her-then-walks-back-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack Journo Taylor Lorenz Says a Drudge Report Editor Harassed Her, Then Walks Back Claim"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fhack-journo-taylor-lorenz-says-a-drudge-report-editor-harassed-her-then-walks-back-claim%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=1462118&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<p>Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz walked back harassment accusations Monday against the Drudge Report, claiming her tweets were a joke.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/view.newsletters.cnn.com\/messages\/165155013171707f04084eee4\/raw?utm_term=165155013171707f04084eee4&#038;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+May+2,+2022&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;bt_ee=7oGoJby3TRFGUbirXU0OqnqfUn%2B8%2B0C8b2514tTccUEDbsn\/P5L1o2xr1yH5Xgj8n\/4Z5fX8ENxweFz%2BEAkL7A%3D%3D&#038;bt_ts=1651550131720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> late Monday that Lorenz claimed that an editor from the Drudge Report \u201crelentlessly\u201d harassed her and threatened to use the site to destroy her life. The news aggregation website told Darcy they and nor any associate had never contacted her.<\/p>\n<p>Drudge emailed Lorenz requesting for a correction to her allegations made on Twitter, leading her to delete the tweets and clarified that the alleged editor had no connection with Drudge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anyone who saw my post abt this man claiming to be from Drudge calling me non stop, good news: I heard from Matt Drudge &#038; this man has zero power over Drudge! He\u2019s claiming to be an editor all over the internet but he\u2019s not. Sorry to disappoint everyone saying Drudge is based,\u201d she said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/libs-of-tik-tok-taylor-lorenz-tim-pool-jeremy-boreing-times-square-billboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018We\u2019re Shining A Light On You\u2019: Massive Billboard Goes Up In Times Square Slamming The Washington Post)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For anyone who saw my post abt this man claiming to be from Drudge calling me non stop, good news: I heard from Matt Drudge &#038; this man has zero power over Drudge! He\u2019s claiming to be an editor all over the internet but he\u2019s not. Sorry to disappoint everyone saying Drudge is based<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1521253296521969665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lorenz told CNN that her initial tweets were a joke and believed the thought of someone harming her via Drudge is \u201chilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to correct the record that I have no drama with Drudge Report,\u201d Lorenz said.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz doubled down on her initial comments early Tuesday by calling them \u201cobjectively hilarious,\u201d then accused CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy of just being \u201cthirsty\u201d for a media story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLol I didn\u2019t even know Drudge Report was even still around. I still think someone claiming to ruin my career on the Drudge Report is objectively hilarious!\u201d she said. \u201cI know you\u2019re thirsty for media news, maybe u can report on someone claiming to destroy me on Geocites next.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lol I didn\u2019t even know Drudge Report was even still around. I still think someone claiming to ruin my career on the Drudge Report is objectively hilarious! I know you\u2019re thirsty for media news, maybe u can report on someone claiming to destroy me on Geocities next<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1521349301246455808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lorenz has been under fire for her recent doxxing of the Libs of TikTok owner in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/04\/19\/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece<\/a> for the Washington Post titled, \u201cMeet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right\u2019s outrage machine.\u201d The piece revealed the previously anonymous user\u2019s name and initially linked her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/washington-post-address-user-libs-of-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real estate<\/a> page that included her address.<\/p>\n<p>The columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/24\/taylor-lorenz-doubles-down-doxxing-libs-of-tiktok-owner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doubled down <\/a>on the doxxing during an April 24 appearance on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources, saying she revealed \u201cno personal information\u201d about the owner at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe absolutely did not reveal any personal information about this woman at all, remotely,\u201d she claimed. \u201cI know that sometimes reporting practices can seem foreign to people that aren\u2019t familiar with journalism, but this was very by the book and very benign. The thing is, the right-wing media will lie, right? They kind of will just spin up these narratives, the goal is to sow doubt and discredit journalism and that is their agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz walked back harassment accusations Monday against the Drudge Report, claiming her tweets were a joke.CNN reported late Monday that Lorenz claimed that an editor from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462118","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=1462118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}