Taylor Lorenz
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We witnessed videos of the abuse in court.
The abuse was so bad in her home that her sister tried to take her own life as well.
Effectively, this girl used Instagram and YouTube as an escape.
So she was having this really difficult home life.
Her mother also weighed her daily, told her she was fat.
Her father told her that she was fat and ugly and all this stuff, and kicked her out of the house at one point.
This girl was struggling.
She went and saw a therapist.
In her years of therapy, and the therapist testified too, you know, she wasn't mentioning social media.
She was mostly like, hey, I'm growing up in this abusive home.
Can you help get me out of my home?
And they didn't.
She stayed there.
So this girl was really failed by the system, I would argue.
Now, conveniently, she's kicked out of the house.
Suddenly, there's all these ads in class action lawsuits saying, hey, you can make a lot of money, actually, for the, you know, if you were a victim of social media.
Now, the mom, the abusive mom comes back around.
Suddenly, the daughter's living at home again.
And she's like, you know, we're going to sue.
We're part of this class action law, you know, this big group sort of suing Meta.