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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] 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...