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What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company to hire an outside investigator. (www.theverge.com)

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Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The process has to be triggered, and if the good old boy network decides to do nothing, there is now an auditable external paper trail that this was reported.

This is why I actually like the new CEO's response, especially since he's on the "good ol' boy network". Let's rope in a third party that's impartial. I'm glad he's not just going the "we investigated ourselves and didn't find ourselves at fault" route. Let's hope the report does come out and does make sense for the situation. But there is always the risk of the third party not finding anything because LMG is paying them. I hope whoever they use has a good track record and the reports that come are clear (and most importantly that actual actions are taken to right the wrongs found/identified). That's the problem with implementing stuff reactionarily, you never really know. But considering the CEO stepped in... what? 7 weeks ago? This is a really good step for him. There might be hope for LMG... but only if Linus stops with the petty shit and stops driving everything into the ground.

If it takes an extra 500$ to test something properly... he should do it. He should know this innately because he's spend hundreds of thousands on "The Labs", but this mentality still shows when he talks candidly on WAN show and other spots. Makes it hard to believe him and his responses contradicting Madison's story when we see this type of mentality elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think the external investigator will find anything that will satisfy the public. It's just been too long.

Linus is suffering from the classic " what got you here won't get you there " problem. And there's going to be an adjustment as the new CEO puts in practices and standards that have been eschewed for a long time.

But this is just part of being human, that's why in science things need to be reproducible, so that we can hopefully isolate the ego variable across multiple people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don’t think the external investigator will find anything that will satisfy the public. It’s just been too long.

I agree, but it's the best, most transparent answer we've gotten so far out of all of this. And I think it's worth validating the choice that the new guy made. It's the one glimmer of hope that the company will move forward positively...