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Taylor Lorenz Breaks Down, Says She Has ‘Severe PTSD’ from Mean Tweets

‘It’s horrifying’

EXCERPT:

REPORTER (on camera): "This is after I did a report on the increase the number of white supremacist running for office. Condescending journalist, C-word, deserves a rope. Obviously I am a person of color. Obviously there’s a reference to a noose. Are you getting messages like these?"
LORENZ: "Yep. Hey, nice job on that story, you soulless effing [bleep]. Then also you'll see, there's these -- there's many people that are tweeting, you know, here's -- these are Taylor Lorenz's loved ones. They have photos."
REPORTER: "Wow, these are all photos of your family members."
LORENZ: "Yeah."
REPORTER: "Children. Yeah. They'll threaten children. They'll threaten my parents. I've had to remove every single social tie. I had severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide. It got really bad. 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."
REPORTER: "And terrifying."
LORENZ: "It's horrifying. I'm so sorry."
REPORTER: "No, you're fine. You're fine."
LORENZ: "It's overwhelming. It's really hard."

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