MSNBC has removed its interview with Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz from YouTube after she slammed the outlet for how the segment, which focused on harassment female journalists face, seemingly led to more harassment.
MSNBC has removed their video interview of Taylor Lorenz from YouTube after she criticized it https://t.co/eScMjPam9t pic.twitter.com/3JTqoxXO41
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) April 8, 2022
In the Meet the Press Daily interview, the former New York Times tech reporter cried in a segment talking about mean tweets that had been sent to her.
"I have had to remove every single social tie. I have severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide. It got really bad," Lorenz said, before breaking down in tears.
"You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you, will be used by the worst people on the internet to destroy your life, and it's so isolating…" Lorenz said before trailing off.
Following the emotional display, Lorenz blasted MSNBC for the interview, alleging it had led to even more harassment.
"If your segment or story on 'online harassment' leads to even worse online harassment for your subjects, you f*cked up royally and should learn how to cover these things properly before ever talking about them again," Lorenz wrote on Twitter, and then added that "few people in power in newsrooms actually understand how the modern internet and online landscape works, and so they continually give ammo to bad actors."
I could teach an entire class on this stuff, but the simple fact is that very few people in power in newsrooms actually understand how the modern internet and online landscape works, and so they continually give ammo to bad actors. https://t.co/6UER5ptRTJ
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 3, 2022
Since the tweets were published earlier this week, MSNBC has made the
