Casey Bloys responds to report alleging he used employees to respond to critics under fake accounts, calling it ‘a dumb idea’

The HBO CEO and chairman, Casey Bloys, has apologised for tasking employees with creating fake Twitter accounts to attack TV critics.

Bloys was responding to a bombshell Rolling Stone report that referenced alleged text messages between himself and Kathleen McCaffrey, HBO’s senior vice-president of drama programming. In six conversations, the pair discussed a “secret army” that could respond to TV critics who gave HBO shows a negative review.

  • kboy101222
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    8 months ago

    Yeah there’s no way that every PR company for these companies aren’t flooding social media with astroturfing. It’s easy and effective.

    Though for marvel they might not have to. There are some marvel fans that nearly make kpop fans seem sane with their stanning. They just can’t accept that they made a bad movie cause it’s their entire personality