Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz claims she has PTSD from mean tweets - "I have severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide. It got really bad."

Accused "crybully" Taylor Lorenz said she has suffered "severe PTSD" from being "a journalist" and broke down in an MSNBC interview on Friday.


On Friday's Meet the Press Daily show on MSNBC, host Chuck Todd briefly discussed government statistics about online harassment and women, before turning it over to correspondent Morgan Radford to do a direct interview with The Washington Post columnist Lorenz who covers technology and online culture.

The former New York Times tech reporter cried in the segment about mean tweets sent to her. The interview cites a study that says criticism about Lorenz's work from high-profile media personalities led to an uptick of backlash against her.


The study in question was done by NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics and the International Women's Media Foundation. Two of the three case studies they did were of Lorenz, as the study labels both Tucker Carlson of Fox News and journalist Glenn Greenwald as arbiters of "sharp increases in harmful speech" directed towards her. MSNBC focused their segment with that backdrop.

"I have had to remove every single social tie. I have severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide. It got really bad." Then she started crying.

"You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you, will be used by the worst people on the internet to destroy your life, and it's so isolating…" Lorenz said before trailing off.

"And terrifying," responded host Morgan Radford.

"It's horrifying!" Lorenz responded before breaking down in tears. "It's overwhelming. It's really hard!"


Alongside Lorenz was LGBTQ reporter Kate Sosin of "The 19th" nonprofit website. Radford herself also shared her "online harassment" experiences when reporting on white supremacy.

This is the graph that MSNBC aired when describing Lorenz's victimhood, displaying the proportion of tweets mentioning her containing "harmful language."



While the chyron on the video says "1 in 3 women under 35 experience online harassment," the Washington Free Beacon outlet has been digging for answers about Lorenz's legitimate age. Her Wikipedia page has contradictory answers.

Back in the newsroom, Radford said the team reached out to Greenwald and Fox News for comment on the harassment study.

As Greenwald explained on Twitter, MSNBC aired only one sentence.



As Krystal & Saagar previously pointed out: Lorenz falsely accused Marc Andreessen of using the "R-word" on Clubhouse, without apologizing for 48 hours. Lorenz also went after YouTube personality MrBeast for saying "a bad word" when he was 19-years-old, and attacked an Instagram influencer because that person’s mother was a "prominent anti-Muslim activist."

Co-host Saagar Enjeti has said Lorenz uses her career to destroy opponents who she feels are beneath her. He said her tears come from Lorenz's inability to suss out what's legitimate criticism and harassment.

At the beginning of March, Lorenz started at The Washington Post. But even that brought turmoil, as the New York Magazine pointed out the online feud between Lorenz and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. Their report outlined an alleged history of toxic workplace behavior.

Lorenz's controversial career history has at times involved her using teenagers like Kellyanne Conway's daughter as the subject for stories.

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[Just_Somebody]

You didn't contemplate it enough, journoscum.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

One time some dude threatened to suck my dick and murder me at the same time on Ultima Online.

I too, know the pain of being PSTD. It pretty much is equivalent to seeing a platoon of my squad get turned into hamburgers from a machine gun.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Hey journoswine.

do a flip

 

[LaxerBRO]

Don't waste your time with death threats if you actually mean it. Just stay silent and plan your revenge.

Blabbing too much just tips your hand allowing your target to be more in guard.

 

[Screw Danlon]

I literally have lost count of the number of times people, both on the internet and irl, have threatened to kill me. I used to keep a ledger, but once I hit page 3 I decided it was both depressing and pathetic.

It’s childish, it can occasionally be disturbing, but it happens constantly. So grow up, put on some pants and get over it.

 

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

THIS bitch? The meanest girl in the media who gleefully sics her flying monkeys on random teenage girls and destroys them? SUFFAH.

 

[BelUwUga]

I have severe PTSD from this.

Interesting. Did you know that classical PTSD generally springs from acute events? A bomb goes off, a violent rape happens, or some singular significant event nearly ends someone's life or irrevocably changes it. What is described by Lorenz does fit the pattern for what has most recently been termed C-PTSD which is really just a kid-gloves name for Borderline Personality Disorder.
Edit: @wharf rat Am I misogynist here too or am I right about this crazy bitch? You still never answered my question. Dial 8 to cope and seethe.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Quick, someone tell her that she has the right to free speech, but not the right to be free from the consequences of her speech!

 

[Cyclonus]

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha

 

[Red Hood]

>soldiers like I have PTSD from seeing my friends die horribly in combat
>abused wife like I have PTSD from being beaten and raped by my husband
>Taylor Lorenz: "omg I read mean tweets I can't even"


If mean tweets really cause PTSD some people should be tried as war criminals.

 

[The Last Stand]

These people could just ... NOT USE SOCIAL MEDIA.

That goes into another point. Social media has enabled people to publicly share anything and everything about themselves for all to see. It's to the point where we elected a president that is obsessed with social media. All that information available at your fingertips, somebody is bound to capitalize on that.

All the convenience social media offers has been sacrificed for privacy, misinformation, and political undertones.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

I hope it's true

 

[Meat Target]

Serves you right for stalking TikTok kids, Bezos Blogspot harpie.

Also, corporate media sees Glenn Greenwald as Judas Escariot for his refusal to dickride the Deep State (ironic, since Greenwald is gay), and grab at straws to discredit him.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Thats cool, I have PTSD from playing Call of Duty.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Interesting. Did you know that classical PTSD generally springs from acute events? A bomb goes off, a violent rape happens, or some singular significant event nearly ends someone's life or irrevocably changes it. What is described by Lorenz does fit the pattern for what has most recently been termed C-PTSD which is really just a kid-gloves name for Borderline Personality Disorder.

CPTSD would require her to have been in a prolonged state of extreme stress she can't escape from. Think being kidnapped and child abuse. This broad just has a case of being a whiny brat. Probably couldn't even plan a suicide to save her life.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

i'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened

 

[DuckSucker]

You didn't contemplate it enough, journoscum.

I mean dont most people? Its incredibly common.

 

[BelUwUga]

CPTSD would require her to have been in a prolonged state of extreme stress she can't escape from. Think being kidnapped and child abuse. This broad just has a case of being a whiny brat. Probably couldn't even plan a suicide to save her life.

While you're right about that being the technical definition, it's also very close to how someone with BPD neurotically perceives their own malignant narcissism. Going "UwU you have CPTSD we're so sorry, you should try this DBT and take these pills to help" is vastly more effective at treating these patients than basically calling them clinically toxic and contagious people.

 

[Absolutego]

I hope she does a flip. One of the worst, most toxic (overrated term but she's the fucking definition of it) journoscum to piss in the endless ocean of piss that is Twitter.

Matt Taibbi had a good article a couple days ago about how so many of these checkmarks with brainworms are children of extreme privilege (Lorenz included), and that much of "I have internet PTSD" rhetoric is basically a dogwhistle for "stop criticizing your elites, plebes".