Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine
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April 19, 202210 min read1993 words
Published: April 19, 2022  |  10 min read1993 words
Listen12 minCommentGift Share, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, prompti...
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Sensational
April 20, 2022
Merely a hit piece for sensational, unnecessary political division. This article embodies all that is wrong with journalism today. Nobody cares about a person that reposts material from the Internet. This article was meant to threaten the population that believes in free speech. Absurd opinions are quoted throughout the content.
April 20, 2022
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Pure Opinion
April 20, 2022
Total opinion! - “Libs of TikTok is shaping our entire political conversation about the rights of LGBTQ people to participate in society,” Drennen said. “It feels like they’re single-handedly taking us back a decade in terms of the public discourse around LGBTQ rights.
April 20, 2022
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Hit Piece
April 20, 2022
Author Taylor Lorenz spends the first part of the piece carefully framing an account that reposts actual videos as an evil, anonymous right-wing power broker before spending the rest of the piece doxing her and likely turning this woman's life upside down. It's bad enough, but Lorenz is constantly and very publicly calling attention to herself as a victim of online harassment while gaining clicks through this kind of more serious behavior.
April 20, 2022
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