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# WaPo reviews columnist Taylor Lorenz’s ‘war criminal’ jab at Biden, reports NPR
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/wapo-reviews-columnist-taylor-lorenzs-war-criminal-jab-at-biden-reports-npr/
- Published: 2024-08-16T14:38:01.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-16T14:38:01.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Media, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:54

**Senior editors at The Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist’s private story on social media,** which appears to label President Biden a “war criminal” in a photo, reports NPR.

According to NPR, The *Post*’s **Taylor Lorenz** attended a White House event for digital influencers on Wednesday. “In the photo she shared with a circle of friends on Instagram, Biden appears over her shoulder; the damning caption rests just below him, accompanied by a text frowny face.

“After [the New York Post’s Jon Levine](https://x.com/LevineJonathan/status/1823810086705488348?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) — a frequent critic of hers — revealed the Instagram photo caption yesterday in a tweet, Lorenz wrote back at him: “You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.”

“A fact-check appended to Levine’s tweet cited her apparent denial. (The contextual note to the tweet says, “Taylor Lorenz says this is a digital manipulation which has added a false caption.”) Lorenz told her editors that someone else had added the caption to the photo.”

“Our executive editor and senior editors take alleged violations of our standards seriously,” a spokesperson for the newspaper told NPR. “We’re aware of the alleged post and are looking into it.” Lorenz declined to comment.

About an hour after originally circulating it, states NPR, “Lorenz removed the picture with the “war criminal” caption from her private Instagram chat and publicly posted the same picture on social media – this time, with no such caption.

“Some pro-Palestinian protesters have sought to tag Biden with the label “war criminal” for the deaths in Gaza caused by Israel, an American ally. The context of Lorenz’s posting, however, is not entirely clear.”

More[ here](https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/g-s1-17201/washington-post-taylor-lorenz-tech-columnist-biden?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).