{"id":1465631,"date":"2022-05-05T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465631"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:46:19","slug":"taylor-lorenz-silent-after-disturbing-report-exposes-tiktoks-sexual-exploitation-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-lorenz-silent-after-disturbing-report-exposes-tiktoks-sexual-exploitation-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Lorenz SILENT After Disturbing Report Exposes TikTok\u2019s \u2018Sexual Exploitation\u2019 of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftaylor-lorenz-silent-after-disturbing-report-exposes-tiktoks-sexual-exploitation-of-children%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=1465631&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chinese spyware app the &#8216;digital equivalent of going down the street to a strip club filled with 15-year-olds,&#8217; analysis finds<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 May 5, 2022 5:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0journalist Taylor Lorenz, the country&#8217;s foremost expert on TikTok, has yet to comment on a bombshell <em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexandralevine\/2022\/04\/27\/how-tiktok-live-became-a-strip-club-filled-with-15-year-olds\/?sh=33df280062d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> exposing the Chinese spyware app for enabling the &#8220;sexual exploitation&#8221; of children.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <em>Forbes<\/em> published the results of an extensive analysis of TikTok&#8217;s livestreaming service, which revealed some startling facts about Lorenz&#8217;s favorite app: &#8220;Viewers regularly use the comments to urge young girls to perform acts that appear to toe the line of child pornography\u2014rewarding those who oblige with TikTok gifts, which can be redeemed for money, or off-platform payments to Venmo, PayPal or Cash App accounts that users list in their TikTok profiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leah Plunkett, an assistant dean at Harvard Law School who studies youth and media, described it as\u00a0&#8220;the digital equivalent of going down the street to a strip club filled with 15-year-olds. \u2026 That is sexual exploitation. But that&#8217;s exactly what TikTok is doing here.&#8221; <em>Forbes<\/em> notes that the transactions are &#8220;happening in a public online forum open to viewers almost anywhere on the planet,&#8221; despite what the Chinese-owned company said was a zero-tolerance policy for attempted solicitation and sexual content.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz, whose pro-TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-tik-tok-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activism<\/a> has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/taylor-lorenz-chinese-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touted<\/a> by Chinese propaganda outlets, does not appear to have been equally alarmed by the report. She has previously suggested that negative articles about TikTok were being planted as part of a nefarious public relations campaign funded by Facebook parent company Meta, the Chinese app&#8217;s largest competitor in the soul-destroying social media space.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz has not posted a single tweet about the <em>Forbes<\/em> article. Instead, the journalist who has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-taylor-lorenz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> herself as &#8220;the most online reporter that you can find&#8221; has been making <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elianayjohnson\/status\/1521501959735414787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">false accusations<\/a> of harassment and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1522249081002729478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserting<\/a> that wearing socks with sandals is both &#8220;comfortable and cool.&#8221; Lorenz&#8217;s latest report on TikTok for the <em>Washington Post<\/em> drew widespread condemnation for exposing the identity of a Twitter user who reposted publicly available content under the moniker &#8220;Libs of TikTok.&#8221; Lorenz and others accused the woman of committing harassment. The woman was immediately harassed after Lorenz revealed her identity.<\/p>\n<p>Serious reporters, including several of Lorenz&#8217;s current and former colleagues at the <em>Washington Post<\/em> and <em>New York Times<\/em>, have suggested that Lorenz&#8217;s approach to journalism is obnoxiously self-righteous. For example, she was widely <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-meme-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> as &#8220;cringey&#8221; for urging young journalists to &#8220;recognize the power of having their own brand.&#8221; Lorenz reportedly called one former<em>\u00a0Times<\/em> colleague\u2014respected journalist Maggie Haberman\u2014a &#8220;bitch&#8221; for suggesting it was not okay to incessantly cover the social media activity of Claudia Conway, the 15-year-old daughter of then-White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz, whose exact age remains a subject of considerable <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-age-investigation\/\">controversy<\/a>, is the\u00a0author of the forthcoming book\u00a0<em>Extremely Online: Gen Z, the Rise of Influencers, and the Creation of a New American Dream<\/em>. She is perhaps best known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-birthday-celeb\/\">attending<\/a>\u00a0a TikTok celeb&#8217;s 16th birthday party, as first reported by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Chinese spyware app the &#8216;digital equivalent of going down the street to a strip club filled with 15-year-olds,&#8217; analysis finds  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 5, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"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-1465631","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\/1465631","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465631\/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=1465631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}