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eBay agrees $56M settlement with bloggers over harassment case

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Re: eBay agrees $56M settlement with bloggers over harassment case

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Post by krystalgamer »

This case is beyond the typical harassment/cyber-stalking. CEO was obsessed with destroying the couple and the person he put in charge (James Baugh) had multiple law enforcement connections.

Video with more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQMuS87gLw

Re: eBay agrees $56M settlement with bloggers over harassment case

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Post by evgen »

krystalgamer wrote: post #2

This case is beyond the typical harassment/cyber-stalking. CEO was obsessed with destroying the couple and the person he put in charge (James Baugh) had multiple law enforcement connections. Video with more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQMuS87gLw

There is also a good Behind the Bastards episode about this case. Truly bizarre obsession on the part of the CEO and a completely off the rails security org doing his bidding.

Re: eBay agrees $56M settlement with bloggers over harassment case

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Post by angoragoats »

Planktonne wrote: post #4

Good. With that said, the CEO has mostly escaped responsibility unfairly.

Agreed. Devin Wenig (the aforementioned CEO) is a thug and criminal who should be in prison.

His statements about this incident are laughable; he claimed in a statement recently that the harassment of the couple was “deliberately done in secret and without my knowledge.” Yet the emails/texts made public as part of the case show him making statements like “take her down… do whatever it takes.”[0]

Absolute scum of the earth. I still have some hope that he’ll be charged criminally, given the renewed publicity this case is getting.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/ebay-settles-s...

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