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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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00:42:39

White Women Are MAGA Internet's Newest Enemy

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/02/11

White women have long been a core voting bloc for conservatives, so why are right wing media figures suddenly obsessed with attacking them?Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co In this episode, Crooked Media Hysteria's Erin Ryan joins me to break down the growing hatred towards white women in MAGA spaces and conservative media. From the massive hate campaigns against Amber Heard and Blake Lively, to smearing

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00:55:14

They Are Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/02/09

🚨 URGENT: Section 230 is under attack and it affects EVERY person who uses the internet. This is part 1 of my deep-dive series exposing the truth about the most important internet law ever created.Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co Every single time you leave a comment, post a review, or send a message, you are being protected by a law called Section 230, and right now, politicians on both sides of the aisle are

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00:38:32

The UK Is A Dystopia, And We're Next

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/02/06

The UK is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive surveillance states in the democratic world, and many don't even realize it's happening.Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co [FREE SPEECH FRIDAY]The UK has officially slid into a dystopian surveillance state, and the rest of the world is next. On this week's Free Speech Friday The Kavernackle joined me to discuss the terrifying reality of the

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00:48:46

Content Creation Has Become a Pyramid Scheme

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/02/04

The MLM industry has rebranded for the TikTok era. Now, instead of hawking LuLaRoe leggings, women are paying $500 for PDFs on how to become micro influencers. Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co The "hustle economy" is no longer about selling essential oils or leggings to your neighbors. A new wave of multi-level marketing-style schemes has taken over Instagram and TikTok. Digital courses

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00:10:17

[PATREON PREVIEW] The Powerful Subreddit Upending...

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/02/02

To listen to the full episode and get other bonus content subscribe to my Patreon or Substack! SUBSCRIBE TO MY PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz Or, buy a paid subscription to my Substack: https://www.usermag.co For a decade, r/LiveStreamFail (LSF) has been the "beating heart" of Twitch culture, but at what cost? One former reddit moderator went viral recently for posting a wild video addressed to Reddit's CEO, where he talks about the secret power he wielded in his

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00:26:50

Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/30

The Internet as we know it is on trial. A major suit claiming social media addiction could give the government unprecedented power.Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co A landmark lawsuit in California claims that social media giants like Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat are intentionally designing their platforms to be addictive, causing severe mental health issues in minors. But is this really about

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00:38:36

Why Everyone Is Becoming Chinese Online w/ Caroline Kwan

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/28

China is winning the culture war: From "galvanized square steel" to drinking hot water, why is the entire internet suddenly looking more Chinese?Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co Over the past year, a massive cultural shift has taken place. From China-maxxing memes to TikTok migrations, Chinese tech, culture, and lifestyle have become aspirational in a way no one could have predicted a decade

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00:09:22

Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham [PATREON...

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/26

TO LISTEN TO THIS FULL EPISODE, SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.coLast week, Brooklyn Beckham, the 26 year old son of Victoria and David Beckham, posted a 7 slide essay on Instagram Stories, accusing his parents of controlling his entire life and disrespecting his wife Nicola Peltz. Immediately, he was hit with a tidal wave of backlash.Right

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00:16:32

How The Government Tracks Your Life

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/23

[FREE SPEECH FRIDAY]Every single moment that you're online, you're feeding the data harvesting industry. Corporations then sell that data to the government, allowing them to target you for online speech, protesting, and more.Now, the government wants to build a single centralized platform where U.S. spy agencies and the government can easily buy highly private information about millions of people. Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal that the U.S. is seeking to establish a "one

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00:59:09

Why Everyone Is Suddenly Obsessed With 2016

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/21

Matt Bernstein, Kat Tenbarge and I dig into what the 2016 nostalgia is really about. Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with 2016? Hyper-saturated Instagram photos are back. The Snapchat puppy filter is everywhere again. Nostalgic edits are flooding TikTok. From the "King Kylie" era to Harambe, it feels like we’re collectively regressing.Support my independent journalism:🙏 Patreon:⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz⁠⁠🗞️ Substack:⁠⁠ https://www.usermag.co⁠⁠But was 2016 really “the

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01:04:14

Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/19

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz Or buy a paid subscription to my Substack newsletter to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co For decades, tech billionaires have sold us a shiny future powered by AI. But what if the future they’re building doesn’t include us? A disturbing ideology has quietly come to dominate Silicon Valley: the belief that we need to dispose of the flawed, biological human race in order to give birth to a superior AI intelligence that will

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00:30:36

ICE's New Surveillance System Can Follow You Everywhere

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/16

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co ICE just bought a massively powerful new surveillance system that can monitor every single phone in your neighborhood, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow you home from work and to other locations.Joe Cox at 404 Media broke the story of these new ICE systems called

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00:48:11

Ashley St Clair's Political Awakening: Trans Rights,...

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/14

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Until recently, Ashley St Clair was a star in the conservative influencer world. She built a large and powerful following by leaning into culture-war rhetoric and boosting MAGA policies. She worked for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and gained national attention by publishing an anti trans

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00:31:18

Congress Is Pushing Another Internet Censorship Law:...

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/09

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Every week it feels like Congress cooks up a new bad internet law. This week we're diving deep into the SCREEN Act. Framed as a child safety bill, this law is an insidious trojan horse for mass censorship and surveillance. It's been getting a lot of traction thanks to its backing from extreme

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00:28:10

ICE Is Treating Immigration Raids Like Content

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/07

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON for ad-free and bonus episodes!!! https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Since Trump took office, ICE has rapidly transformed itself from an under the radar agency into an influencer-style media machine, churning out non-stop viral videos of tactical operations and immigration raids.ICE's ability to dominate the internet has come to serve as a

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00:39:34

4Chan's Battle to Stop the UK From Censoring the...

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2026/01/02

<<< Free Speech Friday!!! >>>SUPPORT ME ON PATREON for ad-free and bonus episodes!!! https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co A few months ago, the UK's Online Safety Act went into effect, causing chaos across the internet. The UK government has censored information about police violence, silenced protesters, banned the subreddit for War

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01:00:53

The Insane Overnight Rise of Clavicular: the...

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2025/12/31

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz⁠ Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 ⁠https://www.usermag.co⁠ Over the past few months, a 19 year old Looksmaxxing livestreamer called Clavicular has become inescapable online, collaborating with an ever growing cadre of massive influencers and conservative online figures. Just last week, he made headlines for running a man over with his Cybertruck on Christmas

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00:27:46

[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2025/12/29

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Why has everyone become so obsessed with game shows where the losers die!? Over the past decade, “The Hunger Games” became a multibillion-dollar media franchise. Netflix’s “Squid Game” took off, and MrBeast's challenges are growing increasingly deadly. Teddy Brown is a freelance writer for the New

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01:03:42

Is This The End of The Open Web?

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2025/12/26

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co >>> Free Speech Friday <<< Across the U.S. parents and lawmakers are calling for tech companies to verify users' ages online. They frame these efforts as a smart, reasonable, and harmless way to keep kids safe. But that's not what age verification does!!!Age verification efforts

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00:20:40

Elon Musk's God Complex

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User ·

2025/12/24

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co As Elon Musk's influence has grown, so too has a darker, more troubling side of his persona: his rampant egomania.Faiz Siddiqui is a former colleague of mine at The Washington Post and he's the author of the new book Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk.In this episode of Power User we break

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