Power User explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, tech journalist Taylor... more
This week Taylor Lorenz dives into the charged content world of Jubilee Media with its founder Jason Y Lee. Jubilee is... more
Taylor explores the inner workings of modern office life through the world of corporate influencers. She’s joined by Ross Pomerantz... more
This week Taylor Lorenz talks about going independent and launching her new online culture newsletter, User Mag! Later, Taylor is joined... more
If you do a lot of online shopping, you may be experiencing deja vu. Amazon, AliExpress, WalMart, Temu, eBay, the... more
Description: Age verification technology is becoming increasingly commonplace as lawmakers seek to enact deeply concerning restrictions in the name of... more
You can spend hours carefully curating your algorithms on TikTok and YouTube, But there’s one place where the algorithm doesn’t... more
Elon Musk’s social media network X has been officially banned in Brazil. Taylor and internet culture reporter Ryan Broderick (Garbage... more
We've all long been familiar with the concept of a "song of the summer," but lately there's been a rush... more
This week, Taylor is in Chicago along with hundreds of content creators for the Democratic National Convention. YouTube star Keith... more
This week, Trump returned to X/Twitter/whatever you want to call it. Editor-in-Chief at the Verge, Nilay Patel, joins Taylor to... more
For years now, MrBeast has been the king of the internet. The 26-year-old creator has the most subscribed to channel... more
The internet lost its mind last week when Taylor broke the news that Michael Bay might be turning Skibidi Toilet... more
Politics and social media were inextricable this week. Joe Biden announced his dropout via X and other social platforms —... more
Minutes after a gunman attacked Donald Trump at a rally, conspiracy theories flourished on social media. Did Trump fake it?... more
Kick, a is home to some of the most reprehensible behavior on the internet. Creators have live-streamed themselves accosting people... more
For the past several years, influencer Lily Chapman has been plagued by a relentless community of women online. They congregated... more
An online smear campaign painted a top Stanford researcher as a censorship supervillain, whose goal was to silence free speech... more
Over the past few months, the term “brain rot” has gone from essentially meaning chronically online, to a fully fledged... more
The record-breaking Instagram account @world_record_egg has returned to publicly express its support for Palestine. Trump joins TikTok and immediately amasses... more
Meet the powerful centimillionaire who dreams of a sovereign San Francisco where tech millionaires wear gray T-shirts to signal their... more
Have you been on Facebook lately? It’s weird and overrun with bizarre, AI-generated, spammy clickbait. Jason Koebler, co-founder of 404... more
This week, TikTok creators sue the US government over free speech, Bumble tells women to get busy, YouTube’s CEO wants... more
Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman joins Taylor Lorenz to discuss the current state of audio and its creator economy. They discuss Spotify's impact and how close... more
Kanye West accused one of the most popular Twitch streamers, Kai Cenat, of being an “industry plant.” It perpetuated the... more
Today, President Biden signed a law banning TikTok, assuming it can't work out some long-shot deal to sell to a... more
AI is causing chaos and confusion in pop music. Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding through diss tracks, but people... more
A moral panic has been emerging lately. People in the media, government, and across the internet are declaring that children... more
Real estate content is living rent-free in Millennials' heads. Taylor Lorenz talks to the CEO of a media company responsible... more
Taylor Lorenz breaks down the latest tech news including Truth Social going public, New York Magazine's much-discussed Andrew Huberman expose,... more
Taylor Lorenz kicks off her first episode with a breakdown of the proposed TikTok forced sale, AKA, ban. She’s joined... more
Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman joins Taylor Lorenz to discuss the current state of audio and its creator economy. They discuss Spotify's impact and how close we are... more