Tal Lavin
Tal Lavin (born 1989/1990)[1] is an American journalist. He is the author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, published in 2020.[2]
Life
Lavin grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and was raised Modern Orthodox.[3] He attended SAR High School[4] and graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature.[5] He was a Fulbright scholar[6] and spent a year in Ukraine.[7]
Lavin is Jewish.[8] In August 2022 he publicly came out as a trans man via his Twitter account.[9]
Career
Lavin was a fact-checker at the New Yorker.[10] He resigned from his position in 2018 after mistakenly comparing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer's tattoo to an Iron Cross.[11] ICE released a statement via Twitter that the officer's tattoo is a Titan 2 platoon symbol, accompanied by the Spartan Creed.[12] Lavin had deleted the original tweet before the agency's statement.[13] In 2018, he was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by Media Matters for America.[14]
Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in HuffPost,[15] and he also worked as a columnist for MSNBC Daily.[16] His work appeared in GQ,[17] Jewcy,[18] HuffPost,[19] Rolling Stone,[20] The New Republic,[21] The New Yorker,[22] New York magazine,[23] The Nation,[24] and The Washington Post.[25]
Bibliography
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Books
- Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Hachette Books. 2020. ISBN 9780306846434
Essays and reporting
- "[Untitled review of The Binc bar]". Goings on About Town. Bar Tab. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 33. April 24, 2017.[26]
Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work
- Culture warlords
- Szalai, Jennifer (2020-10-14). "An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- Kellogg, Carolyn (2020-10-27). "An Expedition Deep Into an Underworld of Online Hate". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- "'My goal was to destroy him' – Jewish journalist Talia Lavin on infiltrating white supremacist groups online". independent. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- "White Supremacy And Its Online Reach : It's Been a Minute". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- "Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy | Jewish Book Council". www.jewishbookcouncil.org. 2020. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- Venkataramakrishnan, Siddarth (8 February 2021). "'Culture Warlords' — undercover among neo-Nazis". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- Tuttle, Kate (October 22, 2020). "A writer infiltrates the world of white nationalism in 'Culture Warlords' - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
References
- ^ Paniagua, Esther (2022-01-29). ""Infiltrarme en los grupos supremacistas en internet fue como bañarme en ácido a diario"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ^ "CULTURE WARLORDS". Kirkus Reviews. 2020-07-28.
- ^ Lerea, Dov (2015-08-21). "An Orthodox tent for Talia Lavin's inner self". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
- ^ Yudelson, Larry (2021-05-12). "Teaneck's sword-wielding Nazi fighter". Jewish Standard. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ Grove, Lloyd (2019-03-24). "Fox News Called Talia Lavin and Lauren Duca 'Little Journo Terrorists.' Now They're Facing Death Threats". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ "Talia Lavin". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ Birkner, Gabrielle (2018-12-15). "JTA Twitter 50: Talia Lavin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ Elkind, Elizabeth (2020-10-19). "A Jewish writer spent over a year undercover on white supremacist message boards. Here's what she found". CBS News. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
- ^ "im a trans guy and im Working On It". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ^ Brady, Amy (2020-11-03). "Talia Lavin: Into the Abyss". Guernica. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ Paiella, Gabriella (2018-06-25). "New Yorker Fact-Checker Speaks After Resignation Over ICE Tweet". The Cut. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ "ICE statement regarding erroneous attacks on ICE employee". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ Brady, Amy (2020-11-03). "Talia Lavin: Into the Abyss". Guernica. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ Levine, Jon (2018-07-20). "Media Matters Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo". The Wrap. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ Collins, Ben (2019-01-25). "4chan trolls inundate laid off HuffPost and BuzzFeed reporters with death threats". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- ^ Gomez, Albert (2022-02-07). "Una periodista judía se infiltra en las redes de supremacía blanca". The Objective (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- ^ "Talia Lavin". GQ. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Talia Lavin, Author at Jewcy". Jewcy. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Talia Lavin | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Talia Lavin". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Talia Lavin". The New Republic. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Talia Lavin". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
- ^ "Talia Lavin Author Archive". New York magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- ^ "Talia Lavin". The Nation. 2019-02-13. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- ^ Penelo, Lídia (June 25, 2022). "Talia Lavin: "La historia oscura de la sangre y del odio está en todas partes"". Publico. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ^ Online version is titled "The Binc, unfocussed in time".
External links
- Kelly Hayes, Fascism Has Gone Mainstream, truthout, September 9, 2022
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