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I don't know exactly how reliable a source it would be considered (as I'm not fully versed in Wikipedia's guidelines), but she did recently post on twitter that she no longer lives with her husband and that she hasn't been doing so for two years. (https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1666883921790009344)
"Lauren was divorced by her husband over 18 months ago." Do you know who divorced who? Divorce is normally a private matter. Perhaps 'Lauren Southern and her husband were divorced in [month] [year]' Seki1949 (talk) 01:44, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Shorten Intro
The introduction has information not necessary for that part of the article. Not only is it quite lengthy but much of the information presented is from events/sources 5-6 years ago. As many followers of her know she has much more nuanced views since her early 20's and to present all that information in the beginning creates a larger presumption to the average reader she still holds those exact views. It would only make sense information years old should be put in other sections of the article which is more of a timeline of her political career. Not to mention such views are not significant/relevant to her current character. 142.116.121.165 (talk) 18:11, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Cunningham, Melissa (19 July 2018). "Far-right mouthpiece Lauren Southern 'hit with hefty police bill'". The Age. Retrieved 6 March 2022. Lauren Southern has become the second controversial alt-right commentator to be slapped with a hefty police bill ahead of her controversial show in Melbourne.
Lombroso, Daniel (16 October 2020). "Why the Alt-Right's Most Famous Woman Disappeared". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020. Southern was only in her early 20s, but she had already emerged as the alt-right's most influential woman.}}
Sources describing Southern as "far-right" include:
Some academics and journalists have described Southern as a white nationalist, Sources discussing Southern in relation to white nationalism include:
Lombroso, Daniel (16 October 2020). "Why the Alt-Right's Most Famous Woman Disappeared". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020. By the time Southern went on McInnes's show, I had been following her for nearly a year. I was making a documentary for The Atlantic about the white-nationalist movement, called White Noise. I'd already become accustomed to the accommodations Southern made to stay within a movement whose hatreds are prolific. (Southern denies being a white nationalist.)
Robison-Greene, Rachel; Greene, Richard (2020). Conspiracy Theories: Philosophers Connect the Dots. Open Court. p. 88. ISBN978-0812694833. Camus's notion of the Great Replacement has been spread by right-wing and white nationalist figures across the world. In July 2018, Lauren Southern, a Canadian alt-right figure posted, a video titled 'The Great Replacement' on YouTube that got over 250,000 views.
Strick, Simon (2020). "The Alternative Right, Masculinities, and Ordinary Affect". Right-Wing Populism and Gender. transcript Verlag. pp. 207–230. doi:10.1515/9783839449806-012. ISBN978-3839449806 – via www.degruyter.com. On behalf of Robinson, a diverse assortment of right-wing celebrities spoke at Whitehall: Canadian white nationalist Lauren Southern...
The issue here is not about reliable sources, but that Wikipedia labels Southern as "alt-right" in the encyclopedic voice. The choice to do this shows editorial bias, is counterproductive, and brings Wikipedia into disrepute. The editorial decision here would be analogous to the article on Kamala Harris beginning "Kamala Devi Harris... is a woke[a] American politician..." with the superscript citing all the reliable sources who have described Kamala Harris as "woke", and then saying to readers "if you have a problem with that, take it up with these sources". Wikipedia should never present opinion or labels as fact, but should instead contextualize. Here it would be better to say something like "described as alt right by many mainstream media outlets and social scientists".
Imagine someone coming to this article to find out more about Southern, having enjoyed some clip of her on youtube. They will read Wikipedia saying she is alt-right (citing a bunch of liberal sources), conclude that Wikipedia is biassed, leave the page, and look for information elsewhere. So you have actually deterred this person from reading legitimate criticism of Southern, and also given them reason to bad-mouth Wikipedia to their friends. Lose-lose. Geometry guy21:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Libertarians are not alt-right. Please remove the slander claiming she is alt-right unless there is verifiable proof. Disagreeing with the extreme left does not qualify. 24.158.139.90 (talk) 01:24, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is a little superscript "[a]" beside that claim in the lead, that displays a list of many reliable sources describing Southern as alt-right. HiLo48 (talk) 01:33, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lauren Southern dated Andrew Tate. Request for Addition to Personal Life?
About a year ago or so, Tommy Robinson, a former associate of Lauren Southern, claimed in a video titled: "Fake Rape Allegations: Andrew Tate The Truth" on Rumble.com, that he witnessed her in a relationship with Andrew Tate back in 2018, either early or mid 2018. He said he, Caolan Roberton and Lauren spent some time in Romania at Tate's house and got a lay of the land, so to say.
Separately, this Caolan Robertson, who is definitely associate of Lauren and Tommy's and his/her former camera man, also hinted in a post about Lauren, though not naming her specifically, that she was sexually assaulted by Tate at some point on the same day he went on a tour throughout Tate's house, all in Romania. He said this in a tweet on twitter that was deleted on or around 30th December 2022, about a year ago now.
I wonder, is this information relevant enough for her article? The relationship has not been confirmed by Lauren, but she's been radio silent on Andrew Tate regarding any mention of him, which is surprising for her content - since she talks about men in the alt-right/right-wing sphere occasionally. Tommy Robinson is a witness to a relationship that isn't commonly known by most people. However, Tate is a well known public figure and so is she, so is it possible someone here can edit her article to include this information in the section on her personal life? If I provide the Robinson video where he makes the claim, would that make an edit more likely? 176.61.110.190 (talk) 01:26, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]