Power User with Taylor Lorenz

Power User explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us.

Episodes

Total: 45

Elon Musk’s social media network X has been officially banned in Brazil. Taylor and internet culture

We've all long been familiar with the concept of a "song of the summer," but lately there's been a r

This week, Taylor is in Chicago along with hundreds of content creators for the Democratic National

This week, Trump returned to X/Twitter/whatever you want to call it. Editor-in-Chief at the Verge, N

For years now, MrBeast has been the king of the internet. The 26-year-old creator has the most subsc

The internet lost its mind last week when Taylor broke the news that Michael Bay might be turning Sk

Politics and social media were inextricable this week. Joe Biden announced his dropout via X and oth

Minutes after a gunman attacked Donald Trump at a rally, conspiracy theories flourished on social me

Kick, a is home to some of the most reprehensible behavior on the internet. Creators have live-strea

For the past several years, influencer Lily Chapman has been plagued by a relentless community of wo

An online smear campaign painted a top Stanford researcher as a censorship supervillain, whose goal

Over the past few months, the term “brain rot” has gone from essentially meaning chronically online,

The record-breaking Instagram account @world_record_egg has returned to publicly express its support

Meet the powerful centimillionaire who dreams of a sovereign San Francisco where tech millionaires w

Have you been on Facebook lately? It’s weird and overrun with bizarre, AI-generated, spammy clickbai

This week, TikTok creators sue the US government over free speech, Bumble tells women to get busy, Y

Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman joins Taylor Lorenz to discuss the current state of audio and its creator

Kanye West accused one of the most popular Twitch streamers, Kai Cenat, of being an “industry plant.

Today, President Biden signed a law banning TikTok, assuming it can't work out some long-shot deal t

AI is causing chaos and confusion in pop music. Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding through diss tr