Would Taylor Lorenz consider this ‘harassment’?

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We need to figure out when criticizing a journalist is harassment, according to the New York Times’s news page, and when it’s fighting against harassment.

Times writer Taylor Lorenz used International Women’s Day to claim that online harassment “destroyed” her life. Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired an opinion segment criticizing this claim. That criticism, it turns out, also counts as “harassment” of Lorenz, she argued. Why? Mainly because the cable news host used her full name and headshot.

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