This story pretty much tells itself. A colleague of Taylor Lorenz at the Washington Post is publishing a big story tomorrow morning about influencers who spread narratives about election fraud in 2020, and Lorenz wants to know if Libs of TikTok would like to comment, even though “you are not one of these influencers.” Oh, and the story will mention you in the context of fostering violence against children’s hospitals.
Why is she obsessed with me? @TaylorLorenz, I don’t want to date you pic.twitter.com/YivZhCxDBS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 12, 2022
Here’s the full message:
Taylor is very sad that I rejected her. But I softened the blow with some good news pic.twitter.com/39gJBu7WmL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 12, 2022
“Hey Tay, I know getting rejected must be really difficult. In some good news, Ross has a 55+ senior discount on Tuesdays so maybe that will make you feel better.”
"Hi, we're about to run a piece accusing you of encouraging domestic terrorism, do you have any comment? Thanks!"
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) September 12, 2022
They're advocacy not journalism.
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) September 12, 2022
Taylor is the high school girl who walks around saying “I just hate drama” whilst being the cause of literally all the drama
— Caroline (@carolinecwilder) September 12, 2022
Reporting on unethical practices taking place at a hospital is "targeting hospitals"?
If you were calling out hospitals for performing lobotomies instead of mutilating children's breasts and genitals, I doubt they'd frame it as "targeting hospitals."
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) September 12, 2022
“We are going to blame you for the alleged actions of other, even if we don’t have any evidence that these actions happened. Do you have a comment?”
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) September 12, 2022
Love the brazen accusations in corporate speak
— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) September 12, 2022
“My colleague is writing about you but I’m obsessed so I asked if I could be the one to harass you”
— Celine Ryan Ciccio 👽✨🫧 (@CelineRCiccio) September 12, 2022
OK, so I'm sure they will be super-duper accurate about this forthcoming story that will be nothing at all like high school gossip from bored journos with nothing better to do than to run black PR ops on indie journos whose opinions they personally disagree with. It will be *LIT*
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 12, 2022
— Magills (@magills_) September 12, 2022
“We are publishing a story on something totally unrelated, but we will still use it to repeat our baseless accusations against you”
— LD (@JohnLockeND) September 12, 2022
You have influence and clout for revealing their sins with the truth.
They want to stop this.
They are trying to manufacture another pretense for banning you again.
— Aurelian of Rome 🕌 (@AurelianofRome) September 12, 2022
“…your account has helped to…”
Note the deceptive insinuation that telling the truth somehow makes YOU liable for ever-ambiguous “violence.”
Even their messages to you are filled with veiled threats.
— Aurelian of Rome 🕌 (@AurelianofRome) September 12, 2022
I've got a crazy idea for the 'democracy dies in darkness' gang… maybe hold government accountable for abusing power against everyday citizens instead of targeting people they can always argue with instead of writing hit pieces with the pretense of journalistic importance?
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 12, 2022
I’m not writing it, and it’s not about you, but could you please give me a comment by 5 p.m.? Thanks!
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Related:
‘NOTHING to see here, journalists’: Téa Smith calls out cry-bully Taylor Lorenz in SAVAGE thread for her ‘personal interest’ in taking Kiwifarms downhttps://t.co/7iZLXCclwQ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 9, 2022
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