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Power User with Taylor Lorenz
Power User with Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz

Power User explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, tech journalist Taylor... more

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Episodes

How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’

No platform has had more of impact on what we listen to over the past decade than Spotify. This week,... more

13 Feb 2025 · 31 minutes
Meet the zoomers aiding Musk’s government takeover

Over the past week, Elon Musk has been engaged in a near wholesale takeover of key areas of the U.S.... more

06 Feb 2025 · 29 minutes
Why a MAGA influencer turned on Trump

Clarkson Lawson was a prominent MAGA influencer on TikTok who amassed over 31 million likes on his videos. He built... more

30 Jan 2025 · 52 minutes
The Truth About Child Influencing

 Family vlogs are a huge category of online content. At their best, they show real parenting and the entertaining and... more

23 Jan 2025 · 30 minutes
Doxxed, harassed and silenced: the fallout of Gamergate 2.0

Remember Gamergate? Well… it's happening again. After writing an exposé about how a video game consultancy was attacked, journalist Alyssa... more

16 Jan 2025 · 36 minutes
Patreon’s CEO on the existential threat to creators no one is talking about

Social media as we know it is in chaos. The landscape is becoming more centralized and creators are facing more... more

09 Jan 2025 · 35 minutes
What defined the internet in 2024?

2024 was wild! "Brain rot" was the Oxford word of the year. TikTok's days away from being banned. The CostCo... more

19 Dec 2024 · 39 minutes
Is TikTok really dead?

Last week, TikTok lost its challenge to stop a ban or forced sale in the United States. WIRED senior business... more

12 Dec 2024 · 40 minutes
The case against cell phone bans in school

A moral panic about kids' social media and smartphone use in schools has been sweeping the country. But are cell... more

05 Dec 2024 · 32 minutes
Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?

Are women abstaining from sex to protest Donald Trump’s re-election? That’s the impression you’d get if you spent time reading... more

21 Nov 2024 · 14 minutes
Power User with Taylor Lorenz
How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’
Power User with Taylor Lorenz