HBO Boss Ordered Staff To Create Fake Accounts To Troll Critics, Exec Responds
Hayley Williams
11/2/2023
Update: HBO CEO Casey Bloys has responded to the report of him having staffers create fake social media accounts to troll critics, offering an apology. Appearing at a pre-planned HBO and Max event on the morning of November 2, Bloys addressed the crowd. "For those of you who know me, you know that I am a programming executive very, very passionate about the shows that we decide to do. And the people who do them and the people who work on them," he said, according to Variety. "I want the shows to be great. I want people to love them. I want you all to love them. It’s very important to me what you all think of the shows. When you think about that, and then think of 2020 and 2021, I’m working from home and doing an unhealthy amount of scrolling through Twitter. And I come up with a very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration."He continued, "Obviously, six tweets over a year and a half is not very effective. But I do apologize to the people who were mentioned in the leaked emails, texts. Obviously, nobody wants to be part of a 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. So now, when I take issue with something in a review, or take issue with something I see, many of you are gracious enough to engage with me in a back and forth and I think that is a probably a much healthier way to go about this. But we’ll talk more about that, and you guys can ask me anything you want in the Q&A. I just wanted to put that out there."You can read the original story below.Continue Reading at GameSpot...
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