‘Libs of TikTok’ Account Responds Accordingly After Formerly Tearful WaPo ‘Reporter’ Doxxes Them – Opinion

Washington Post “technology columnist/reporter” Taylor Lorenz made waves earlier this month when she appeared on MSNBC for an interview in which she proclaimed personal information about her had been shared online. Because of that, she tearfully claimed she had “severe PTSD” and had contemplated suicide due to the amount of online harassment she alleges she’s received as a result of doing her job – which, in a nutshell, involves the online harassment of social media users, some of who post anonymously out of fear of retribution from their opposition and/or their employers.

Watch the following video for those who have missed it:

NEW: Taylor Lorenz, a MSNBC journalist says that she suffers from “severePTSD”. pic.twitter.com/G9FymoSdH8

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) April 1, 2022

Lorenz’s responsibilities include being a buddy-buddy to troubled teenagers of political stars. She has been renowned for her ability to simultaneously present herself as victim and victim through witchhunt campaigns that target people posting politically inaccurate viewpoints. When Fox News host Tucker Carlson blistered Lorenz (who at the time worked for the NYT) in March 2021 over her trying to have it both ways, the Usual Suspects jumped into action by accusing him of “misogyny” and then trotted out dumb “words are violence” arguments to defend themselves.

Now here we are, two weeks after Lorenz’s MSNBC segment on online harassment went viral, and she’s out with her latest piece – where we learn that she doxxed the popular “Libs of Tik Tok” Twitter account, going so far as to track down family members of the person who runs the account:

Hi @TaylorLorenz! What relative did you find most enjoyable harassing at their home yesterday? pic.twitter.com/QehkBSgcmG

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) April 19, 2022

The Libs of Tik Tok accounts’ purpose is simple: to find video posts on Tik Tok by far-left bat-crap teachers or others with similar influence in the local community and to repost them to LoTT Twitter. They’ve been suppressed and suspended a number times by the Twitter Powers That Be and are now being targeted by so-called journalists as well.

For the apparent crime of simply amplifying the wacko rantings and ravings – and calls to action – of the radical left that were already out there, Taylor Lorenz, who has stated on a number of occasions that online harassment is the sharing of personal information online is never okay, sought to punish them – with the blessing of the higher-ups at the Washington Post (language warning):

https://t.co/mtbesQiusk pic.twitter.com/h7hPYbFN9u

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) April 19, 2022

Lorenz attempts to defend herself via Twitter. She disingenuously suggested that LoTT’s information is already public, but she has not yet explained how she decided it was necessary to find the relatives of the LoTT account holder. Perhaps the family members are teenagers, since that vulnerable age group seems to be essential for Lorenz to get close to in order to obtain information regarding the “stories” she seeks.

LoTT assured viewers and readers that their content was safehat they wereIt’s good to know that they were in safe surroundings after the publication of their account report. What’s not good to know is that Lorenz, who two weeks ago practically begged people to be sympathetic to her alleged online harassment plight, still obviously thinks it’s ok to hold herself to a different standard than the one to which she holds others.

But as my colleague Bonchie once previously (and correctly) pointed out, journalists – especially those in Lorenz’s line of work – don’t get to have it both ways. “Journalists desperately want to live under different rules than they apply to normal Americans,” he wrote. “It is up to the rest of us to make sure they don’t get to have that double standard.”

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