Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
Taylor Lorenz explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, she explores everything from online fame to emerging platforms, viral phenomena, the creator economy, and much more. Tune in every Wednesday for regular episodes and every Friday for "Free Speech Friday," her series on tech policy and the fight for civil liberties online.
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Episodes (329)
Deported Over a JD Vance Meme
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Private Equity Is Destroying America
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ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion: The Rise of People Worshiping A.I.
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How The Government Tracks Your Life
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The Death of Rainbow Capitalism w/ Matt Bernstein
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The Truth About Burning Waymos
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Elon vs Trump Explained w/ Brace Belden
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Is this the end of the open web?
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Elon Musk's God complex
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The Government Is Lying About Online Safety
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The case against logging off
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The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer
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Why Students Can't Stop Using ChatGPT
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They're trying to ban posting about abortion online
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How the Media Tricks You Into Loving the Police
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Undercover AI ‘College Protester’ Bots for Cops
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Tween Podcasters Are Taking Over the Internet
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Fake Newspapers Are Flooding America
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The White House's social media is deranged
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The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein
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Musk’s DOGE Antics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla
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Trump Official Brendan Carr's War on Free Speech
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The Right-Wing Plot to ‘Murder’ a Free Press
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How Pop Culture News is Radicalizing You
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How the 00s changed the tech world forever
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Elon Musk and the Billionaire Baby Boom
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How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’
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Meet the zoomers aiding Musk’s government takeover
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Why a MAGA influencer turned on Trump
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The Truth About Child Influencing
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Doxxed, harassed and silenced: the fallout of Gamergate 2.0
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Patreon’s CEO on the existential threat to creators no one is talking about
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What defined the internet in 2024?
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Is TikTok really dead?
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The case against cell phone bans in school
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Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?
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Why Democrats won't create a left-wing Joe Rogan
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AI’s destroying seasonal content
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The mastermind behind the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest
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Into the Costcoverse with AJ Befumo
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Are Jubilee videos healing or polarizing?
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Inside the strange world of corporate influencers
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How nostalgia accounts are destroying pop culture history
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Why online retailers all sell the same crappy products
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The Problem with Age Verification Online
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Why is Instagram Reels so unhinged?
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Brazil's X ban upends stan accounts + political debates take over TikTok
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The ultimate summer trend recap + a Chick-fil-A streaming service
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Inside the DNC’s influencer extravaganza, from yacht partying to meme lounge
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Can Elon and Twitter save Trump? + Kamala plays with fire online
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