WaPo taps Taylor Lorenz to explain how Elon Musk is using Twitter to kill even more people from COVID

The Washington Post has a major beef with Elon Musk. Why is that, exactly? Is it because with Elon Musk in charge of Twitter, WaPo will no longer be able to count on Twitter to clamp down on their critics and Twitter users will have more freedom to fact-check the fact-checkers?

We’re guessing those are only a few of the reasons they’re so bothered by Elon’s Musk. Once it started getting under their skin, it was there to stay.

So they’re just gonna go ahead and embrace the obsession and try to milk it for everything they can:

The rollback of Twitter’s covid misinformation policy is just the latest pivot since Elon Musk took control of the company a month ago. Doctors and public health officials say Musk’s decision is a “huge step backwards” and will lead to more deaths. https://t.co/Wlqmq1BASm

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 30, 2022

“Elon Musk buying Twitter will literally kill people from COVID” is quite a take.

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— The List (@ListComesForAll) November 30, 2022

The piece itself is List-able enough on its face. But it’s extra List-able when you see who wrote it:

You knew it had to be Taylor Lorenz.

https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1597803474942853120

You lost me at “I cannot believe the Washington Post…” https://t.co/okPHU6n4NE

— Voss 🇺🇸 (@vossaustin) November 30, 2022

Fair point.

Here’s how the piece concludes (which is pretty much exactly how you’d expect it to conclude if Taylor Lorenz wrote it):

But experts say Musk’s decision will lead to more deaths. “It’s a huge step backwards in a pandemic that has killed a million Americans and millions more worldwide,” [Jon Shaffer, a health sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics] said. “It’s certain to get many more people killed from covid than otherwise would.”

One of Musk’s most consequential twitter policy changes has been to allow dangerous public health messaging to spread like wildfire.

Just search “vaccine population control” to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole.@TaylorLorenz lays out why this matters:https://t.co/J6JhnvKzwu

— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) November 30, 2022

The words “Taylor Lorenz” and “matters” lay out why no one should be taking Mark D. Levine seriously. Well, those words, and also this:

https://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/1597997008127950849

Ah, who could forget that moment of COVID glory?