Claim Journalist Taylor Lorenz wrote an article for the Washington Post headlined, “This dog is the new face of online homophobia.”Fact CheckA screenshot of a supposed Washington Post article headlined, “This dog is the new face of online homophobia,” with a photograph of a dog, went viral in the spring of 2022. Carrying the byline of Washington Post technology journalist Taylor Lorenz, the fake story was shared in mid-May 2022. More cutting edge journalism from the 49 year old Washington Post activist infamous for showing up masked on random people's doorsteps & sliding into the DMs of tiktok teenagers. She also joked that she would write it if it would “get me to 500k followers”:the fact that anyone thinks this is real…. An article on LGBTQ Nation from May 16, 2022, carried the headline, “This dog is the new face of online homophobia.” Chewston is a dachshund whose pictures have been shared online for around a year, usually accompanied with a homophobic statement arguing that she just doesn’t like LGBTQ people.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2022 16:52 UTC