Hello everyone and welcome back to yet another episode of the D program,

a show that would under the potential new American SPM7 regulations be classified as a terrorist organization.

Today we have acclaimed journalist, author, fellow mask wearer and content creator rights activist with us, Taylor Lorenz. Taylor,

thank you for taking the time to come on the show. Please tell our audience a little bit about

yourself and where they can find your very important work. Thank you. Yes, I'm an American

journalist. You can find me on YouTube. Pretty much every social media app out there, Instagram, TikTok, X.

I also have a substack called UserMag, where I read about sort of tech and online culture news roundups.

And I make content and do journalism about sort of internet culture, influencer culture, the attention

economy, and also a lot about like privacy and surveillance and free speech and civil liberties

online. And I've been doing journalism for about 15 years and I just, I quit my full-time job

just about a year ago actually this week. Feels good, right?

Very liberating.

Or are you already regretting it?

No, I don't regret it at all.

I was independent before.

So it was sort of a weird detour to work in the mainstream media.

And I'm pretty glad to be on my own again.

I would like to actually ask a question about that. I mean, we're kind of jumping into the questions a little bit early, but I always wondered, because I don't know anybody who has worked in journalism in the kind of halls that you've frequented, in the quote-unquote respectable journalism, if you know, if you catch my drift, the types that, oh, yeah, if it's a source that

says Washington Post and people will take it, will not take it for granted, if I'm using

the English correctly, meaning they won't double, they won't ask too much about it if it's

written there versus a different source. Did you find it suffocating to work in these spaces?

Yeah, I think I, you know, there were so many things that I learned and I'm glad that I did work at these places because I think I had a lot of misconceptions.

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