Last week Taylor Lorenz suddenly announced she was leaving her gig at the Washington Post to launch her own site on Substack. As I pointed out at the time, Lorenz was already under investigation by the Post over something unhinged she posted on her Instagram.
Taylor Lorenz of the Washington Post calls President Biden a “war criminal” 👀👀 pic.twitter.com/ih0xWPw049
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) August 14, 2024
She might have gotten away with the comment about Biden but when it was discovered she lied in public, to her editors and even apparently to people she knew. After deleting the image with the caption she reposted it publicly with the caption and claimed the caption had been added by someone else. She just lied about everything and she got caught. NPR had a story in August which seemed to be based on sources at the Post.
After the New York Post’s Jon Levine — a…
