Talia Lavin

American journalist and author

Talia Lavin (born 1989) is an American journalist. She is the author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, published in 2020.^[1]

Life

Lavin grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and was raised Modern Orthodox.^[2] ^[3] She attended SAR High School^[4] and graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature.^[5] She was a Fulbright scholar^[6] and spent a year in Ukraine from 2012 to 2013.^[7]

Career

Lavin was a fact-checker at The New Yorker.^[8] She resigned from her position in 2018 after mistakenly comparing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer's tattoo to an Iron Cross.^[9] ICE released a statement via Twitter that the officer's tattoo is a Titan 2 platoon symbol, accompanied by the Spartan Creed.^[10] Lavin had deleted the original tweet before the agency's statement.^[11] In 2018, she was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by Media Matters for America.^[12] Within "several months", she was no longer with Media Matters for America, and was hired at New York University where she was scheduled to teach an undergraduate course in the Fall semester called "Reporting on the Far Right".^[13] The course was canceled by May 30, 2019 when only two people signed up for the course. The Wrap reported her faculty bio had been deleted "around April 20, 2019".^[14]

Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in HuffPost,^[15] and she also worked as a columnist for MSNBC Daily.^[16] Her 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. 4 July 2021. 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

^ "CULTURE WARLORDS". Kirkus Reviews. 2020-07-28.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Levine, Jon (March 20, 2019). "NYU Journalism School Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo". TheWrap. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
^ Levine, Jon (May 30, 2019). "NYU Cancels Former New Yorker Fact-Checker Talia Lavin's Journalism Class". TheWrap. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
^ 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".