Lux Alptraum

After CES 2019, Lora DiCarlo became a media darling, with countless high profile publications sweeping in to tell the story of the sex toy company that called out CES's sexism. But something always felt off to me — and in this 2020 feature, I was able to pull back the current on the many lies, and culture of abuse, that other outlets had ignored in their glowing profiles of the hot new feminist sex toy company.

I was one of the first reporters to identify how online age verification laws could quickly become a cudgel for online censorship — a danger that has become incredibly evident as these laws have swept the nation with virtually no pushback.