According to TheNewYorkPost:
Washington Post internet reporter Taylor Lorenz accused a “Sopranos”-themed meme account on Twitter for promoting “anti-vaxxer COVID denialism” after the operator of the Twitter handle mocked her for having a “no-show job.”
Lorenz, who has more than 355,000 Twitter followers, took umbrage over the weekend at a humorous tweet from the Twitter account known as “Socialist Sopranos Memes.”
The Twitter account, which is run by an operator who goes by the handle @gabagoolmarx, posts memes inspired by characters from the hit HBO crime drama that starred the late James Gandolfini, which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007.
The meme targeting Lorenz featured mobster Christopher Moltisanti, who was played by actor Michael Imperioli, having a conversation with his uncle, family boss Tony Soprano.
“She’s called Taylor Lorenz, T,” the caption reads.
“She’s supposed to be a journalist but all she ever does is tell people they’re ableist if they go to a restaurant for some dinner.”
“Think we can get in on some no-show jobs like that?”
Lorenz fired back after being mocked.
“The socialist sopranos meme account has joined the anti vaxxer covid denialist harassment campaign against me today,” she tweeted.
“Very cool and leftist to align yourself with these people.”
The operator of the meme account clapped back, tweeting: “I got the vaccine the moment it was made available to me, actually. April 2021. But this Washington Post ‘Journalist’ likes to make things up about meme accounts, apparently.”
Lorenz then clarified her criticism, accusing the meme account operator of “hopp[ing] in on an anti vaxxer led harassment campaign / pile on” by posting claims that were “indistinguishable from what those far right accounts are saying.”
Lorenz has been a vocal critic of the lifting of COVID lockdown measures and mitigation strategies such as mandatory masking, saying that the relaxation of pandemic-era rules and restrictions places people with pre-existing conditions at increased risk.
