Seriously @annie_goldsmith? Your puff piece about Taylor Lorenz (where you oddly put a photo of me next to political public figures) has no mention of the lawsuit against Lorenz or WHY she was sued. It also mischaracterizes why people criticize her & her own attacks on women.🧵
I had to sign up for @theinformation and pay $39 to a publication I’ll never read just to see why my photo was associated to Taylor Lorenz in your article. And to my surprise- no mention of me, the claims in the lawsuit or why I went on Tucker Carlson. 🧵 Let me help you out…
“She [Taylor Lorenz] just keeps putting out bangers.” @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins NBC.
Ben - Did you know she wrote a “banger” about me full of lies basically inferring that I spied on kids, stole from them and leaked their nudes? All FALSE ideas that can be proven in court?
Is she really a “scoop machine” @malitzd - or does she have powerful friends in elite circles?
She “broke” the story that launched Charli D’Amelio into super stardom & then D’Amelio signed to the same talent agency as Lorenz, UTA. Lorenz then wrote a separate puff piece on UTA.
Is Taylor Lorenz a “scoop machine” or did she encourage teenagers to obtain potentially illegally recorded conversations with the White House and TikTokers for her story that SNL mocked?
Is Taylor Lorenz a “scoop machine” or is she just “buddies” with @wiczipedia? Nina was a Biden appointed govn’t board leader (a powerful position) who has supported Lorenz publicly even when Lorenz was caught lying about Clubhouse investor Marc Andreesen. 🧵
Oh @annie_goldsmith - I bet you were so interested in your subject Taylor Lorenz that you watched all 78 minutes of this well-researched video pointing out all of Lorenz’s lies (produced btw by a liberal leaning journalist) @BostWiki -
Putting me next to Taylor Lorenz critics like Tucker Carlson @annie_goldsmith - did u consider how many Lorenz lovers like u disregarded my story? Did u consider my career that was demolished by lies? Or did you want to paint me as a right wing nut who attacks an innocent journo?
Let me be clear: MY CASE IS NOT POLITICAL. Taylor Lorenz lied & wrote a hit piece that killed my American dream presumably for click bait & to maliciously please her talent agency who wanted my clients & likely wanted my reputation destroyed. I went on Tucker so I could be heard.
If people care abt #JusticeForJohnnyDepp after watching how lies can destroy a person’s CHARACTER & the life shattering mess that ensues - I hope they consider what Taylor Lorenz did to me. She has been called the Amber Heard of journalism. See 4 yourself bit.ly/3NIxJuc
The founding editor of Gawker (a media co. forced shut down after losing a defamation lawsuit funded by tech VC @peterthiel) tells @annie_goldsmith that she thinks Taylor Lorenz is a vulnerable target of @pmarca & @balajis bc she’s a woman. No - Lorenz literally got caught lying.
Here’s the scariest part of @annie_goldsmith’s hagiography of Taylor Lorenz - she mentions all the young journos who dream of becoming just like Taylor. Imagine if all little girls with acting ambitions wanted to be Amber Heard. Are we creating a culture for professional victims?
Think: If 86% of young Americans aspire to be influencers - and if Taylor Lorenz holds the key to make or break their careers - she doesn’t just have power thru her MSM allies but she’s also grooming influencers w hundreds of millions of followers to follow her narrative or else.
Taylor Lorenz’s lack of accuracy & ethics caused the public vitriol towards her.
While mean tweets suck, I promise it sucks much worse to have an empty bank account and a legacy tarnished by Lorenz’s lies.
Some of you spent Christmas dragging Sriram Krishnan through the mud without knowing a thing about him. He didn’t stumble into tech’s inner circle—he built his path, brick by brick, from India to Silicon Valley. Before you embarrass yourself further, keep reading. You might learn something. 🧵
Sriram Krishnan’s story doesn’t start in Silicon Valley. It starts in Chennai, India, where his family couldn’t afford a computer until he was 17.
When he finally got one, it cost his dad a year’s salary. Sriram taught himself to code using a pirated version of Windows.
Years later, a blog post he wrote caught the attention of a Microsoft exec visiting India.
Sriram wasn’t just invited to demo his work—he was flown out to present it in front of thousands. His first time on a plane, in a hotel, ever. Microsoft hired him on the spot.
I guarantee no one’s breaking down the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni complaint like this. Lawyers & PR teams are betting you’ll take their version at face value, but I’ve seen this playbook before—and I’m going to show you how it works. Buckle up. 🧵
Full disclosure: I take no pleasure in doing Bryan Freedman’s (Baldoni’s lawyer) job for him. This is the same attorney who repped a behemoth talent agency I sued once. But exposing Hollywood’s smear tactics? That’s a personal passion. So why not? 😅
Anyway, who can blame Freedman for being good at his job? I will call a truce to cover this fairly, just for you guys.
The complaint paints Baldoni as orchestrating a smear campaign against Lively for speaking out about workplace harassment. Sounds explosive—but here’s the kicker: much of the “evidence” relies on implication, not proof.
Let’s talk about Blake Lively’s “complaint” against Justin Baldoni. It’s NOT a lawsuit (yet), so why file it with the California Civil Rights Dept (CRD) first? Here’s what’s really going on—and why it’s possibly a strategic PR move from Team Lively. 🧵
Under CA law, if you’re claiming harassment or retaliation, you HAVE to file with the CRD first before suing in court. But here’s the twist: CRD complaints aren’t automatically public. So how did the NYT get their hands on it? 👀
There are only two ways:
1️⃣ Lively’s team handed it to the NYT directly.
2️⃣ They tipped off the NYT to file a public records request IMMEDIATELY after the complaint was filed. Either way, this was strategic. Let’s break it down.
🧵The Dummies Guide to Defamation*
Here’s why successfully suing the media for libel in America is such a Hurculean task…
*I’m not a lawyer but I have access to Google, YouTube, Chat GPT and first hand experience 😏
🧾Burden of Proof: This is like someone at work spreading a rumor about you, and you wanting to clear your name. You can’t just tell your boss it’s a lie, you need to bring emails, messages, or witnesses - concrete proof that it’s false. That’s your burden in a defamation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🧾 Burden of Proof
Publication: You have to show that the statement was published, meaning it was shared with someone other than you. This doesn’t mean it needs to be in a newspaper or book; it could be spoken in a public place, broadcasted on TV or radio, or posted on social… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Possibly the most important video you should watch if you want to understand the depths of Taylor Lorenz’s reporting practices and how she came after ME - a non-political, non-rich, non-white, non-male. I say that only to point to her hypocrisy. Link 41:33
We all owe A LOT to @BostWiki for calling Taylor Lorenz out before it was popular & for reporting HONESTLY on her tactics b4 she became a 🤡 meme.
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The journalist who bravely exposed TL worked at McDonalds & grew up in a small town in the Midwest.
.@BostWiki exposed Taylor Lorenz for the bully she is OVER A YEAR AGO when MSM still protected, amplified and victimized her - even 👑’d her 40under40. He deserves ppl to watch his 🎥 (which is likely suppressed by @YouTube).