Lauren Southern

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Canadian political activist

Lauren Southern
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Lauren Southern, born Lauren Simonsen on 16 June 1995 in Surrey, is a Canadian political activist, pundit, journalist, YouTuber, documentary filmmaker and author. Her YouTube channel had about 708,000 subscribers in March 2025. In 2024 she stepped back from public life, and in 2025 she published a memoir, This Is Not Real Life, about her experiences of political fame and life online. She has since worked in ghostwriting and writing consultancy, mainly on fiction and memoir.

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