HBO Exec Casey Bloys Admits To Making Fake Accounts To Reply To Negative Tweets About Shows

HBO govt Casey Bloys has issued an apology for utilizing pretend Twitter profiles to reply to unfavorable tweets about reveals on the community.

Bloys, who’s the CEO and chairman of HBO and Max, stood earlier than TV critics on Thursday throughout a presentation at HBO’s New York places of work. There, he admitted that he’s “very, very passionate about the shows” they produce. Because of this, Bloys stated he grew to become considerably obsessive about listening to the social media suggestions pertaining to the packages he’s concerned with.

“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,” Bloys shared, including, “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.”

Now, in response to Bloys, when he’s upset with the unhealthy evaluations, he takes his frustration up in personal messages as a substitute of utilizing his pretend pages. His admission arrived shortly after a lawsuit was introduced towards Bloys and HBO by ex-employee Sully Temori for wrongful termination. As soon as his authorized docs have been filed, Rolling Stone obtained messages between Bloys and different execs confirming the usage of troll accounts to answer to unfavorable takes on the reveals. Temori claims he was ordered to create the pretend profiles and was additionally ordered to tweet replies from the accounts throughout his position as an govt assistant. Moreover, Temori was ordered to depart feedback on Deadline articles criticizing the community’s productions.

As of now, it doesn’t appear that Bloys is going through any disciplinary motion for his tweets, however solely time will inform.