Lawsuit: Former Fox Host Had Digital Devices Spied On By Fox After Reporting Sexual Harassment
Source: Media Matters
According to NPRs David Folkenflik, Andrea Tantaros, former Fox News host and plaintiff in a sexual harassment lawsuit against the network and its former CEO Roger Ailes, has presented a new lawsuit against the network. The new lawsuit, according to Folkenflik, says the network arranged to have her private communications spied on as part of a campaign of intimidation that involved Twitter sock puppet accounts tweeting the contents of her private conversations after she reported sexual harassment incidents at Fox News.
As reported by NPR, Tantaros lawsuit says that Fox News executives including co-President Bill Shine orchestrated the use of material gathered by electronic eavesdropping that was fed to Twitter accounts acting on the network's behalf. According to multiple articles, Shine has reportedly participated in retaliation campaigns against women who have reported sexual harassment within the network and has pushed women into confidential mediation, signing nondisclosure agreements in exchange for their contracts to be paid.
Read more: https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/24/lawsuit-former-fox-host-had-digital-devices-spied-fox-after-reporting-sexual-harassment/216162
Here's hoping this finally destroys Murdoch's pervert empire once and for all.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)The worse thing that ever happened in this country was Fox News
Nitram
(22,801 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)I never agreed with Andrea's politics but her family and her were always good people. Shame that she faced such a hostile work environment.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)Make invasion of privacy an issue those low-lifes fear.
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)Who would ever consider working at Fox, now?
Only someone who would think the competition at the more honorable networks is too intense.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...complains of billionaire misbehavior.