Harassment

Thursday

October 17, 2024

Starmer’s snowflakes’ charter

From our UK edition

I almost choked on my cornflakes when I read that the Prime Minister had said he would slash red tape and ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’ as part of a bid to persuade global business executives to invest in UK plc. Is this the same Keir Starmer whose government has just published an Employment Rights Bill that will tip a wastepaper basket full of red tape over employers’ heads? I know all governments pledge to ‘free up’ British businesses and then smother them in new regulations, but this wins first prize.

Tuesday

April 19, 2022

Amber Duke

Washington Post lies in defense of Taylor Lorenz

The Washington Post is defending a widely criticized article that "exposed" the creator of the viral Twitter account, "Libs of TikTok." The article, published Monday, was authored by tech reporter Taylor Lorenz, who has come under fire for her questionable journalistic ethics. Lorenz used information sourced by a former Twitter employee to reveal the identity of the Libs of TikTok account owner, who chose to operate the account anonymously and is otherwise a private citizen. The Post reporter even showed up to the home of the account owner's relatives and harassed a random Instagram user with a similar name, asserting that she was going to be "implicated as starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people.