YouTubers say WaPo's Taylor Lorenz falsely claimed she reached out for comment in story about Depp-Heard trial & More Trending News

The Washington Post’s “internet culture” journalist Taylor Lorenz is below hearth for falsely claiming she had reached out to YouTubers in her story about the explosive Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial. 

On Thursday, following the beautiful conclusion of Depp’s profitable defamation lawsuit towards his ex-wife, Lorenz alleged the true winners have been “content creators” who benefited from the courtroom frenzy with bigger followings and spikes in income. 

“The trial offered a potential glimpse into our future media ecosystem, where content creators serve as the personalities breaking news to an increasing numbers of viewers — and, in turn, define the online narrative around major events. Those creators can also bring in major personal profits in the process,” Lorenz informed readers. “In this new landscape, every big news event becomes an opportunity to amass followers, money and clout. And the Depp-Heard trial showed how the creator-driven news ecosystem can influence public opinion based on platform incentives.”

Her article cites two YouTube personalities, “LegalBytes” host Alyte Mazeika and an nameless consumer named ThatUmbrellaGuy. Lorenz alleged that based on Business Insider, Mazeika “earned $5,000 in one week by pivoting the content on her YouTube channel to nonstop trial coverage and analysis.” She additionally claimed that ThatUmbrellaGuy “earned up to $80,000 last month, according to an estimate by social analytics firm Social Blade.”

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Included in the paragraph was a parenthetical assertion studying, “Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy did not respond to requests for comment.”

Both Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy refuted the assertion, saying Lorenz by no means reached out to them previous to publication of her story. 

“Um. This says I didn’t respond to requests to comment? I know I’ve gotten a lot of emails over the past two months, but I’ve just double checked for your name, @TaylorLorenz, and I see no email from you,” Mazeika referred to as out the Washington Post columnist. “Also, I didn’t suddenly pivot. I started covering this before trial began.”

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Mazeika accused Lorenz of mischaracterizing Business Insider’s protection of her, which she too thought was “unfair.” She later supplied an replace claiming Lorenz reached out to her for comment “after the piece was already published and I had to call it out.”

“This is so dumb,” Mazeika wrote. 

Lorenz appeared to acknowledge Mazeika’s public grievance, tweeting “Thanks for replying!” and that she “would love to incorporate your comments!”

ThatUmbrellaGuy equally referred to as out the Post’s article. 

“The Washington Post LIED and DID NOT contact me before including me in their story on Johnny Depp, despite reporting they did so,” the YouTuber tweeted, sharing time stamps of his tweet calling out the article and Lorenz’s e-mail to him despatched minutes later.

He later continued, “The Washington Post also FLAGRANTLY misrepresented my earnings report and needs to correct it. Social Blade says I made between $4.9k and $79.1k. They ADDED TO the highest estimate, overreporting for dramatic effect.”

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The Washington Post article appeared to have been stealth-edited, eradicating the declare that Lorenz had reached out to the YouTubers for comment with out an editor’s word acknowledging the change. 

The Washington Post didn’t instantly reply to Fox News’ request for comment. Fox News additionally reached out to Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy for comment.  

Lorenz has lengthy been criticized for her journalism ethics. In 2020, she repeatedly publicized the 15-year-old daughter of Trump aide Kellyanne Conway for the teenager’s outspoken TikTookay posts and allegedly reached out on to the minor with out her dad and mom’ permission. 

Conway not too long ago torched Lorenz for obsessing over her daughter, referring to her as “Peter Pan.”

In 2021, Lorenz falsely accused enterprise tech entrepeneur Marc Andreessen of “using the r-slur,” which she admitted was an error.

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In April, she doxxed the identification of fashionable Twitter character Libs of TikTookay simply days after she decried the net harassment of girls. 

Lorenz was ridiculed for her report final month alleging Nina Jankowicz, who was set to be the manager director of the Biden administration’s so-called “Disinformation Governance Board,” was the “victim” of “right-wing attacks” because the Department of Homeland Security was placing a pause on the initiative following weeks of intense backlash. 

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