{"id":1705760,"date":"2022-10-21T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705760"},"modified":"2022-10-21T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:03:43","slug":"happy-birthday-taylor-lorenz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-birthday-taylor-lorenz\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Taylor Lorenz!"},"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\">8<\/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%2Fhappy-birthday-taylor-lorenz%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=1705760&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--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The controversial influencer known for coverage of TikTok teens is 38 (or is it 44?)<\/p>\n<p>    <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 October 21, 2022 10:50 am  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening<\/strong>: Taylor Lorenz, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-vaccine-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-meme-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalist influencer<\/a> best known for her coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-birthday-celeb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teen culture<\/a> and the Chinese spyware app TikTok, is celebrating a birthday today. She works for the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: No one really knows <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-age-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how old she is<\/a>. The mystery surrounding Lorenz&#8217;s true age prompted a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-age-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> in 2020. We know she was born on October 21, but the year of her birth remains a matter of debate in the investigative community.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To the best of our knowledge, Lorenz was born in 1984 and today is her 38th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Our findings contradicted a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> report suggesting she was born in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lorenz claimed to be 43 years old in March of this year, which would make her 44 today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture<\/strong>: Lorenz has implied she regularly lies about her age for attention. She <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freebeacon\/status\/1509955133412630534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> to suffer from &#8220;severe PTSD&#8221; and has a long history of courting controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the month of October alone, she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-vaccine-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">berated<\/a> a colleague at the <em>Post<\/em>, peddled an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-vaccine-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-vaccine<\/a> conspiracy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-vaccine-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> to multiple crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;I am a lizard person,&#8221;\u00a0Lorenz <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-lizard-person\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> in May following a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> investigation into her unusual habit of drinking &#8220;about three gallons of water daily&#8221; and keeping the temperature in her Los Angeles apartment at 87 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lorenz <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-meme-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> in 2021 that\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> reporter Maggie Haberman was a &#8220;bitch&#8221; for challenging her weird obsession with a teenager&#8217;s social media posts. She left the <em>Times<\/em> for the <em>Post<\/em> several months later.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 She has been called &#8220;literally worse than [Vladimir] Putin,&#8221; among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening: Taylor Lorenz, the controversial journalist influencer best known for her coverage of teen culture and the Chinese spyware app TikTok, is celebrating a birthday today. She works for the Washington Post.<br \/>\nThe post Happy Birthday, Taylor Lorenz! appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1705763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1705760","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=1705760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}