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.

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    16•1 year ago

    He apologized for:

    He admitted that six tweets over an 18-month period was “not very effective” but apologised to anyone who had been involved.

    Six tweets that we know of and got caught for. How many more weren’t found in discovery?