Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
Technology

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

by Taylor Lorenz

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.

101 episodes
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1
How Section 230 Became Political : The Secret Campaign To Seize Power Over the Internet
48:31 Mar 16, 2026
2
ICE Wants to Shut Down His Clothing Brand: What Happens When the Govt Hates Your Merch
42:01 Mar 13, 2026
3
How Bots Boosted Nicki Minaj's MAGA Pivot
35:40 Mar 11, 2026
4
Everything You Know About Algorithms Is A Lie: Section 230 Algorithm Problem Explained
44:40 Mar 9, 2026
5
Inside The AI Scandal Rocking Silicon Valley: How The Govt Wants AI To Kill Without Humans
33:07 Mar 6, 2026
6
How Epstein Shaped The Internet w/ Ryan Broderick
39:17 Mar 4, 2026
7
They Want to Ban Abortion Info Online
44:07 Mar 2, 2026
8
How The Govt Uses Big Tech to Silence Critics
30:05 Feb 27, 2026
9
Kids Are Being Taught By ChatGPT: Inside A $65K AI School
36:53 Feb 25, 2026
10
Why The Internet Is Broken
54:10 Feb 23, 2026
11
The Body Camera Propaganda Playbook
29:57 Feb 20, 2026
12
Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds: The Logging Off Industrial Complex
1:00:22 Feb 18, 2026
13
The Man Who Created the Internet's Most Important Law: Sen. Wyden Reveals What Big Tech Won't Tell You
19:39 Feb 16, 2026
14
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Internet Censorship Crusade
44:59 Feb 13, 2026
15
White Women Are MAGA Internet's Newest Enemy
42:39 Feb 11, 2026
16
They Are Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
55:14 Feb 9, 2026
17
The UK Is A Dystopia, And We're Next
38:32 Feb 6, 2026
18
Content Creation Has Become a Pyramid Scheme
48:46 Feb 4, 2026
19
[PATREON PREVIEW] The Powerful Subreddit Upending Twitch: The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail
10:17 Feb 2, 2026
20
Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?
26:50 Jan 30, 2026
21
Why Everyone Is Becoming Chinese Online w/ Caroline Kwan
38:36 Jan 28, 2026
22
Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham [PATREON PREVIEW]
9:22 Jan 26, 2026
23
How The Government Tracks Your Life
16:32 Jan 23, 2026
24
Why Everyone Is Suddenly Obsessed With 2016
59:09 Jan 21, 2026
25
Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
1:04:14 Jan 19, 2026
26
ICE's New Surveillance System Can Follow You Everywhere
30:36 Jan 16, 2026
27
Ashley St Clair's Political Awakening: Trans Rights, AI, and Elon Musk
48:11 Jan 14, 2026
28
Congress Is Pushing Another Internet Censorship Law: The SCREEN Act
31:18 Jan 9, 2026
29
ICE Is Treating Immigration Raids Like Content
28:10 Jan 7, 2026
30
4Chan's Battle to Stop the UK From Censoring the Global Internet
39:34 Jan 2, 2026
31
The Insane Overnight Rise of Clavicular: the black-pilled Gen Z looksmaxxer taking over the internet
1:00:53 Dec 31, 2025
32
[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now
27:46 Dec 29, 2025
33
Is This The End of The Open Web?
1:03:42 Dec 26, 2025
34
Elon Musk's God Complex
20:40 Dec 24, 2025
35
Is There A Vibe Shift in Silicon Valley? [PATREON EXCLUSIVE]
3:47 Dec 22, 2025
36
Social Media Addiction Isn't Real— Here is What's Really Happening
27:53 Dec 19, 2025
37
How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z w/ Ryan Broderick
27:23 Dec 17, 2025
38
The Global Internet Is Dying: America Is Repeating China's Biggest Mistake
47:12 Dec 12, 2025
39
Everyone Is Wrong About The Olivia Nuzzi RFK Scandal w/ Kat Tenbarge
1:10:56 Dec 10, 2025
40
Congress Is About to Break the Internet
25:10 Dec 5, 2025
41
The Radicalization Pipeline Nobody Sees Coming
41:14 Dec 3, 2025
42
None Of This is About Online Safety
24:43 Nov 28, 2025
43
The MAGA Twitter Apocalypse w/ Charlie Warzel
26:30 Nov 26, 2025
44
[PATREON PREVIEW] How Zohran Won The Internet w/ the Creators 4 Zohran Founders
1:26 Nov 24, 2025
45
The Most Depraved Commentary I've Ever Heard
16:35 Nov 21, 2025
46
The Epstein Saga Is Sending the Internet Into Chaos w/ Brace Belden
38:58 Nov 19, 2025
47
The Government Is Spying on College Football Games
16:40 Nov 14, 2025
48
How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War
35:55 Nov 12, 2025
49
He Was Tortured in an Israeli Prison for Speaking Out
30:23 Nov 7, 2025
50
Why Every Hit Pop Song Sounds the Same Now
38:48 Nov 5, 2025
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