Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
By Taylor Lorenz
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Episodes: 97
Kellie
May 4, 2024
well researched and interesting
Description
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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Trump's Censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Is Just The Beginning
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The Truth Behind The Rise of 'Robot Racism'
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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A New Kind of AI Deepfake is Taking Over TikTok [PATREON PREVIEW]
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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We Need to Talk About 'Political Violence’
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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The Death of Casual Posting w/ Kyle Chayka
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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ICE can now hack your phone without you knowing
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Shocking Truth About Dark Money and Influencers
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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The Real Reason Your Insurance Just Went Up
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The MrBeast of OnlyFans on Skibidi Toilet Porn and Elon Musk
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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The True Story Behind Four Loko
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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YouTube's AI Age Verification is a Disaster
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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What killed The Song Of The Summer w/ Anthony Fantano
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Everyone’s Lying About Lil Tay OnlyFans w/ Kat Tenbarge
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Is ChatGPT Changing The Way We Talk? w/ Adam Aleksic
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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The UK's Censorship Catastrophe is Just The Beginning
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The Public Health Internet Is Crumbling
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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How Companies Learned Everything About Us
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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ICE Is Building a Nationwide Tracking System (and Your Data is In It)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Why we can’t stop doxxing people for fun
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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AI Deepfake Panic is Killing Free Speech
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Diddy And The Death of #MeToo: How Diddy’s Trial Was Weaponized Online
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Is a YouTuber Using Copyright Law to Silence Speech?
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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MAGA's Epstein Crashout And What's Next w/ Will Sommer
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Silicon Valley Wants Endless War
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Are kindness influencers bad?
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Deported Over a JD Vance Meme
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Private Equity Is Destroying America
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion: The Rise of People Worshiping A.I.
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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How The Government Tracks Your Life
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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The Death of Rainbow Capitalism w/ Matt Bernstein
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The Truth About Burning Waymos
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Elon vs Trump Explained w/ Brace Belden
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Is this the end of the open web?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Elon Musk's God complex
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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The Government Is Lying About Online Safety
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May 30, 2025 |
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The case against logging off
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May 29, 2025 |
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The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer
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May 23, 2025 |
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Why Students Can't Stop Using ChatGPT
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May 22, 2025 |
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They're trying to ban posting about abortion online
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May 15, 2025 |
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How the Media Tricks You Into Loving the Police
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May 08, 2025 |
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Undercover AI ‘College Protester’ Bots for Cops
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May 01, 2025 |
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Tween Podcasters Are Taking Over the Internet
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Fake Newspapers Are Flooding America
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The White House's social media is deranged
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Musk’s DOGE Antics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Trump Official Brendan Carr's War on Free Speech
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The Right-Wing Plot to ‘Murder’ a Free Press
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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How Pop Culture News is Radicalizing You
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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How the 00s changed the tech world forever
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Elon Musk and the Billionaire Baby Boom
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Meet the zoomers aiding Musk’s government takeover
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Why a MAGA influencer turned on Trump
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The Truth About Child Influencing
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Doxxed, harassed and silenced: the fallout of Gamergate 2.0
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Patreon’s CEO on the existential threat to creators no one is talking about
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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What defined the internet in 2024?
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Is TikTok really dead?
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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The case against cell phone bans in school
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Why Democrats won't create a left-wing Joe Rogan
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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AI’s destroying seasonal content
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The mastermind behind the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Into the Costcoverse with AJ Befumo
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Are Jubilee videos healing or polarizing?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Inside the strange world of corporate influencers
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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How nostalgia accounts are destroying pop culture history
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Why online retailers all sell the same crappy products
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The Problem with Age Verification Online
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Why is Instagram Reels so unhinged?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Brazil's X ban upends stan accounts + political debates take over TikTok
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The ultimate summer trend recap + a Chick-fil-A streaming service
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Inside the DNC’s influencer extravaganza, from yacht partying to meme lounge
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Can Elon and Twitter save Trump? + Kamala plays with fire online
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Can MrBeast be canceled? + Tim Walz mania and minions on a cross
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Is Skibidi Toilet the Next Hollywood Blockbuster?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Is Kamala Harris a political meme stock?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The rise of ‘BlueAnon' + Trump shooting merch + RNC influencers
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Inside the most toxic live-streaming platform + NATO influencers
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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An influencer’s battle against her snark subreddit
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Why do so many people think a top Stanford researcher is a CIA agent?
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Do you speak Brain Rot? How the internet is changing language
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Is it ever okay to film strangers in public? + Trump’s new TikTok + MrBeast hits #1
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Is a Tech Utopia a Dystopia for Everyone Else?
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May 30, 2024 |
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'Zombie Facebook' takes over + ScarJo vs OpenAI
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May 23, 2024 |
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Is the celebrity 'blockout' working? + TikTok creators sue the U.S.
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May 16, 2024 |
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What's up with Fake Podcast Ads, AI Audiobooks and the Audio Creator Economy?
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May 09, 2024 |
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Are "Industry Plants" Real? + 'The Social Network' Sequel
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May 02, 2024 |
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Sell or Die. TikTok’s Sophie’s Choice + MKBHD on his viral ‘takedowns’
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Drake & Kendrick's AI Rap Beef + TikTokkers Against Biden
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Is Social Media Destroying Kids’ Lives? + Elon’s Secret X Account
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Real Estate Content Boom + The Worst Day on the Internet
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Kindness Influencers and Poverty Porn + Is Huberman Cancelled?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Should we ban TikTok? + MrBeast’s Amazon deal, and what's up with Shrimp Jesus?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Introducing Power User with Taylor Lorenz
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Feb 28, 2024 |