Barstool Sports bro-in-chief Dave Portnoy may have a mole inside Insider, staffers at the news outlet fear.
online that never appeared in the final article, giving rise to concerns among Insider staff that a mole inside the outlet passed along an early draft to Portnoy, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
There was even an internal investigation, these insiders said, but it is unclear what Insider management turned up on a potential mole. “We don’t comment on matters pertaining to pending litigation,” Insider said in a statement to Source Material. A review by Source Material found that Portnoy did, indeed, publish to the Barstool Sports website a series of excerpts from Insider’s drafted reporting that did not make the final copy, including one woman’s claim that he pinned her down and put his hand over her mouth during sex—leading to her struggling to get away and feeling as though she was “trapped.”and have The Daily Beast media team’s stellar reporting sent straight to your inbox every Monday night.
What makes the affair even more bizarre: Portnoy’s lawsuit is for defamation and invasion of privacy, yet he personally published some of the more salacious claims about his sex life that Insider actually withheld out of ostensible editorial prudence. “I remember trying to speak up and say stuff and my face was literally getting squished in,” the woman was quoted in some of the unused Insider material that. “I couldn’t even talk. I could barely breathe.” The woman, who was 18 years old at the time of the alleged incident, further told Insider she felt scared for her physical safety, defeated, and objectified in that moment. “I wanted to get out.
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