Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

By Taylor Lorenz

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Episodes: 90

Kellie
 May 4, 2024
well researched and interesting

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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.

Episode Date
The Real Reason Your Insurance Just Went Up
Aug 29, 2025
The MrBeast of OnlyFans on Skibidi Toilet Porn and Elon Musk
Aug 27, 2025
Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You
Aug 22, 2025
The True Story Behind Four Loko
Aug 20, 2025
YouTube's AI Age Verification is a Disaster
Aug 15, 2025
What killed The Song Of The Summer w/ Anthony Fantano
Aug 13, 2025
Everyone’s Lying About Lil Tay OnlyFans w/ Kat Tenbarge
Aug 08, 2025
Is ChatGPT Changing The Way We Talk? w/ Adam Aleksic
Aug 06, 2025
The UK's Censorship Catastrophe is Just The Beginning
Aug 01, 2025
The Public Health Internet Is Crumbling
Jul 30, 2025
How Companies Learned Everything About Us
Jul 28, 2025
ICE Is Building a Nationwide Tracking System (and Your Data is In It)
Jul 25, 2025
Why we can’t stop doxxing people for fun
Jul 23, 2025
AI Deepfake Panic is Killing Free Speech
Jul 18, 2025
Diddy And The Death of #MeToo: How Diddy’s Trial Was Weaponized Online
Jul 16, 2025
Is a YouTuber Using Copyright Law to Silence Speech?
Jul 11, 2025
MAGA's Epstein Crashout And What's Next w/ Will Sommer
Jul 09, 2025
Silicon Valley Wants Endless War
Jul 07, 2025
Are kindness influencers bad?
Jul 02, 2025
Deported Over a JD Vance Meme
Jun 27, 2025
Private Equity Is Destroying America
Jun 25, 2025
ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion: The Rise of People Worshiping A.I.
Jun 23, 2025
How The Government Tracks Your Life
Jun 20, 2025
The Death of Rainbow Capitalism w/ Matt Bernstein
Jun 18, 2025
The Truth About Burning Waymos
Jun 13, 2025
Elon vs Trump Explained w/ Brace Belden
Jun 11, 2025
Is this the end of the open web?
Jun 06, 2025
Elon Musk's God complex
Jun 04, 2025
The Government Is Lying About Online Safety
May 30, 2025
The case against logging off
May 29, 2025
The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer
May 23, 2025
Why Students Can't Stop Using ChatGPT
May 22, 2025
They're trying to ban posting about abortion online
May 15, 2025
How the Media Tricks You Into Loving the Police
May 08, 2025
Undercover AI ‘College Protester’ Bots for Cops
May 01, 2025
Tween Podcasters Are Taking Over the Internet
Apr 24, 2025
Fake Newspapers Are Flooding America
Apr 17, 2025
The White House's social media is deranged
Apr 10, 2025
The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein
Apr 03, 2025
Musk’s DOGE Antics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla
Mar 27, 2025
Trump Official Brendan Carr's War on Free Speech
Mar 20, 2025
The Right-Wing Plot to ‘Murder’ a Free Press
Mar 13, 2025
How Pop Culture News is Radicalizing You
Mar 06, 2025
How the 00s changed the tech world forever
Feb 27, 2025
Elon Musk and the Billionaire Baby Boom
Feb 20, 2025
How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’
Feb 13, 2025
Meet the zoomers aiding Musk’s government takeover
Feb 06, 2025
Why a MAGA influencer turned on Trump
Jan 30, 2025
The Truth About Child Influencing
Jan 23, 2025
Doxxed, harassed and silenced: the fallout of Gamergate 2.0
Jan 16, 2025
Patreon’s CEO on the existential threat to creators no one is talking about
Jan 09, 2025
What defined the internet in 2024?
Dec 19, 2024
Is TikTok really dead?
Dec 12, 2024
The case against cell phone bans in school
Dec 05, 2024
Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?
Nov 21, 2024
Why Democrats won't create a left-wing Joe Rogan
Nov 14, 2024
AI’s destroying seasonal content
Nov 07, 2024
The mastermind behind the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest
Oct 31, 2024
Into the Costcoverse with AJ Befumo
Oct 24, 2024
Are Jubilee videos healing or polarizing?
Oct 17, 2024
Inside the strange world of corporate influencers
Oct 10, 2024
How nostalgia accounts are destroying pop culture history
Oct 03, 2024
Why online retailers all sell the same crappy products
Sep 26, 2024
The Problem with Age Verification Online
Sep 19, 2024
Why is Instagram Reels so unhinged?
Sep 12, 2024
Brazil's X ban upends stan accounts + political debates take over TikTok
Sep 05, 2024
The ultimate summer trend recap + a Chick-fil-A streaming service
Aug 29, 2024
Inside the DNC’s influencer extravaganza, from yacht partying to meme lounge
Aug 22, 2024
Can Elon and Twitter save Trump? + Kamala plays with fire online
Aug 14, 2024
Can MrBeast be canceled? + Tim Walz mania and minions on a cross
Aug 08, 2024
Is Skibidi Toilet the Next Hollywood Blockbuster?
Aug 01, 2024
Is Kamala Harris a political meme stock?
Jul 25, 2024
The rise of ‘BlueAnon' + Trump shooting merch + RNC influencers
Jul 18, 2024
Inside the most toxic live-streaming platform + NATO influencers
Jul 11, 2024
An influencer’s battle against her snark subreddit
Jun 27, 2024
Why do so many people think a top Stanford researcher is a CIA agent?
Jun 20, 2024
Do you speak Brain Rot? How the internet is changing language
Jun 13, 2024
Is it ever okay to film strangers in public? + Trump’s new TikTok + MrBeast hits #1
Jun 06, 2024
Is a Tech Utopia a Dystopia for Everyone Else?
May 30, 2024
'Zombie Facebook' takes over + ScarJo vs OpenAI
May 23, 2024
Is the celebrity 'blockout' working? + TikTok creators sue the U.S.
May 16, 2024
What's up with Fake Podcast Ads, AI Audiobooks and the Audio Creator Economy?
May 09, 2024
Are "Industry Plants" Real? + 'The Social Network' Sequel
May 02, 2024
Sell or Die. TikTok’s Sophie’s Choice + MKBHD on his viral ‘takedowns’
Apr 24, 2024
Drake & Kendrick's AI Rap Beef + TikTokkers Against Biden
Apr 18, 2024
Is Social Media Destroying Kids’ Lives? + Elon’s Secret X Account
Apr 11, 2024
The Real Estate Content Boom + The Worst Day on the Internet
Apr 04, 2024
Kindness Influencers and Poverty Porn + Is Huberman Cancelled?
Mar 28, 2024
Should we ban TikTok? + MrBeast’s Amazon deal, and what's up with Shrimp Jesus?
Mar 21, 2024
Introducing Power User with Taylor Lorenz
Feb 28, 2024