Washington Post columnist and serial doxxer Taylor Lorenz reportedly scrubbed and temporarily locked her account after an article from the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday called her out for her comments earlier in the week about independent journalist Bari Weiss, who is Jewish, calling Lorenz’s comments a “cruel antisemitic tirade.”
The outlet called out Lorenz for reacting “poorly to an Axios article about Weiss’s new media company, the Free Press, and decided to vent her rage on the immigrant-owned social networking website.”
Lorenz posted on the social media platform in response to the profile of Weiss, “Notable what gets framed as a ‘buzzy media startup.’ If u start off rich, have a rich spouse, rich friends, don’t follow any journalistic ethical rules, and focus your content solely on serving the interests of extremely powerful rich ppl, you can go far!”
The Beacon and Twitter users called out Lorenz for her “petty jealousy.”
On Thursday evening, Lorenz’s account was temporarily locked, only to be unlocked by Friday morning.
The outlet wrote, “Weiss is younger*, better looking, and more successful as a journalist and as a human being. Why wouldn’t Lorenz be jealous?”
A footnote in the article added, “Weiss is 38, while Lorenz is estimated to be between 38 and 44 years of age,” mocking Lorenz for previously waffling about her age.
According to the Beacon, “Weiss also happens to be Jewish, and Lorenz’s tweet was a textbook example of an anti-Semitic trope about how all Jews are rich and powerful, conniving, and immoral.”
The outlet expanded on Lorenz’s extensive history of using antisemitic language and tropes.
Earlier this year, Jeff Bezos’ employee doxed the then-anonymous woman behind the Libs of TikTok Twitter account in The Washington Post calling the owner a “powerful” Orthodox Jew who is “shaping” the media.
