Controversial Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz quit the left-leaning paper Tuesday — weeks after she caused an uproar for calling President Biden a “war criminal” on her Instagram account.
Lorenz, who hadn’t published anything for the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet since Aug. 7, said she was leaving in order to launch her own newsletter on the Substack platform, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her newsletter, titled “User Magazine,” will “cover technology from the user side,” she told the outlet.
“It’s about who has power on the internet and how that power is being wielded,” she said.
Lorenz — who has been at the center of controversy during a tumultuous career that included stints at The New York Times and The Daily Beast — said she “just wanted to get out of legacy media.”
“I feel like it’s just really, really difficult to do the…
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