Controversial Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz on Tuesday said she quit the left-leaning paper — weeks after the publication launched an internal review following her social media post that called President Biden a “war criminal.”
Lorenz, who hadn’t published anything for the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet since Aug. 7, said she was leaving in order to launch her own newsletter on the Substack platform, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her surprise exit comes after she had previously told Fox News Digital that she was on an overseas vacation and implied she would be back to work at the paper the week of Sept. 30.
The outspoken scribe came under fire after New York Post reporter Jon Levine posed a photo on X that Lorenz had uploaded to her Instagram account while attending a White House event featuring Biden in August.
The selfie showed her wearing a COVID mask with Biden in the background that was captioned “war criminal.”
Lorenz initially claimed the image was digitally altered, writing: “You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.”
She also told her editors the photo was a forgery. But National Public Radio confirmed the authenticity of the image.