HBO CEO Confesses to Trolling Critics With Fake Tweets: ‘Dumb Idea’

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HBO CEO Confesses to Trolling Critics With Fake Tweets: ‘Dumb Idea’
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Casey Bloys confirmed Rolling Stone’s report that he ordered staff to create fake accounts to fire back at critics during a press event.

’s programming slate for 2024, Bloys addressed members of the media — some of whom being the very critics he trolled — to confess that during the pandemic he spent an “unhealthy amount of time” on“It’s very important to me what you all think of the shows,” Bloys said. “When you think about that, and then think of 2020 and 2021, I’m working from home and doing an unhealthy amount of time scrolling through Twitter. And I came up with a very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration.

“Obviously, six tweets over a year and a half is not very effective,” Bloys added. “But I do apologize to the people who were mentioned in the leaked emails, texts. Obviously, nobody wants to be part of the story that they have nothing to do with. But also, as many of you know, I have progressed over the past couple of years to using DMs.

“Casey is looking for a tweeter … he’s mad at Alan Sepinwall,” McCaffrey texted in April 2021. “Can our secret operative please tweet at Alan’s review: ‘Alan is always predictably safe and scared in his opinions.’ And then we have to delete this chain right? Omg I just got scared lol.” comments in July 2020, according to the texts.

The messages are being prepared as evidence in former HBO employee Sully Temori’s wrongful termination lawsuit against HBO; McCaffrey; Francesca Orsi, HBO’s head of drama; as well as Abel “.

HBO said in a statement that it “intends to vigorously defend against Mr. Temori’s allegations. We look forward to a full and fair resolution of this dispute. In the meantime, we wish Mr. Temori, a former HBO employee, well in his future endeavors.

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