The controversy continues to grow.

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.

  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.”

    Finally, someone in this shit fest of a management structure realized that having the owners of the company investigate themselves isn’t the smartest idea here.

    I will be interested to see how much power the new CEO really has over operations, or if Linus predictably has got such a founder’s syndrome that he tries to “fix” the problems himself (which he can’t, of course, since he clearly doesn’t believe he has a workplace culture issue in the first place).

    • shitescalates@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The quality and partner/sponsor issues are mostly expected from getting investor money and expanding quickly. The harassment issues are probably a preexisting problem from existing management. So its interesting that these issues are coming out near the same time.

      Expect Linus to be reigned in and no longer be responding directly to these issues. Despite that he didnt sell the company, the people/banks that gave him the money to expand will not be happy to lose their money.