WaPo spokesperson tells Fox News they scrubbed that link from Taylor Lorenz's story because they 'deemed it unnecessary'

These tweets are from Tuesday night, but they’re important. They’re important because, as Twitchy reported, Taylor Lorenz included in her hit piece on the woman behind Libs of Tik Tok a link to her real estate license, which included her address and other personal information. But when the Washington Post’s senior managing editor released a statement defending Lorenz’s reporting, she declared that “we did not publish or link to any details about her personal life.” That’s a flat-out lie. As Jerry Dunleavy and a few others noted, the Post stealth-edited the piece to remove the link to the real estate license without an explanation or editor’s note.

Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reached out to the Post to get some clarification on that claim.

NEW: I reached out to The Washington Post on its statement defending Taylor Lorenz's report doxxing @libsoftiktok, which claimed, "We did not publish or link to any details about her personal life." (Thread) https://t.co/HUZiSw5j2t

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) April 20, 2022

WaPo faced intense backlash for initially including a hyperlink that revealed Libs of TikTok's employer, professional info as well as an address, which has been referred to as her home address.

The hyperlink was later scrubbed from the report following backlash. 2/

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) April 20, 2022

I pressed WaPo regarding the incident and its statement.

A spokesperson insisted, "We linked to publicly available professional information."

But when asked why the link was later scrubbed, they replied, "Ultimately, we deemed it unnecessary."

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) April 20, 2022

Isn’t the editor’s job to make sure things that are unnecessary aren’t included in the published piece? You post a link, and then remove it because you deemed it unnecessary after it was published? That’s not how this works.